Vista is crap and the techs know it. Only retards like frank think its
anything else than sh!t. Oh yes vista is a bucket of sh!t, without the
bucket!
And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd... Not
anymore. A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software
developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year. Eight percent.
This is perhaps made even worse by the corresponding data that shows 49
percent of developers writing applications for Windows XP.
Such appreciation for history is not likely to warm the cockles of
Microsoft's heart, especially when Linux is getting lots of love from
developers (13 percent writing apps for it this year and 15.5 percent in
2009). The Mac? I don't have any equivalent data via Evans Data. But the Mac
OS has rocketed by 380 percent as a targeted development platform, Evans
Data told Computerworld.
The numbers don't get much better for Vista in 2009: 24 percent (compared
with 29 percent for XP). That's a big step up from 8 percent, but is it a
sign of momentum to come or just a temporary stopgap while developers wait
until Windows 7?
Nor has Microsoft made it easy to develop Vista applications, according to
an article in ITJungle.com:
Unfortunately, that improved security posture makes it more difficult for
developers to write applications for Vista (read: no more kernel-level
access and UAC to worry about), and it also causes compatibility problems
with older applications. Ironically, the wave of attacks targeting operating
system vulnerabilities has largely passed, and today hackers have moved on
to target applications. At the same time, Microsoft has provided iterative
improvements in Windows XP security, bolstering its status as "good enough"
and further eating into Vista's pie.
Indeed. Microsoft doesn't need to handicap itself on the desktop given its
difficulties competing everywhere else. With Linux and the Mac taking
ever-increasing shares of the developer pie, Microsoft would do well to
shore up developer support for Windows.
source: news.cnet.com
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