[DISCUSSÃO] 92 percent of developers ignoring Vista?

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Despite Microsoft's efforts, the majority of developers still aren't writing with Windows Vista in mind, a new study by Evans Data says. Only eight percent of software firms surveyed were specifically coding with Vista in mind, while additional data brought together by CNET indicates that 49 percent are still writing for Windows XP; 13 percent are programming for Linux, according to reports. Vista development is predicted to improve for 2009 in the report but will still include just 24 percent of all developers despite the absence of XP from the market; the software is officially phased out from all but budget nettop PCs and similar netbooks, such as the ASUS Eee PC.

Statistics for the improvement of other operating systems, including Linux and Mac OS X, is unavailable but believed to show improvement. About 380 percent more developers than in the past are said to be writing for Macs either exclusively or as part of a wider release.

The hesitation isn't explained by Evans but is believed to stem both from technical hurdles with Vista as well as satisfaction with XP. Microsoft's decisions to remove direct access to the operating system, as well as to require permissions requests, have left developers preferring the earlier platform. Microsoft's efforts to shore up Windows XP security have also eliminated many of the reasons to transition to Vista.

These and public perception issues are believed to be particularly damaging for Microsoft's sales to corporate users, who may cost the company nearly $400 million in sales for 2009 as they avoid moving to Vista over back compatibility and system performance issues.

Fonte: http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/06/16/92.pc.devs.ignoring.vista/

 

[Koncaman]

Dada a penetração do Visa no mercado de computadores.. não é nada surpreendente...
além disso, o que se desenvolve para trabalhar em XP, muito provavelmente não tem problemas em trabalhar no vista..

 

[Sameiro]

Nice way to write an article, guys. They aren't ignoring vista, they're just not writing programs specifically for Vista. And why would anyone (unless you're working on internal programs for a particular customer).

I'd like to know how many Mac developers are specifically developing for Leopard (and throwing all those Tiger users out the window with a big "We don't care about you idiots! Upgrade or die!")

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"They aren't ignoring vista"
did you read the same article i did?
they are ignoring vista, they're writing for xp. leopard developers are writing for tiger as well, these people aren't even attempting to write for vista. it's in english, what's the problem.

old and bitter.

Comentarios ao artigo

 

[MeY-ZiNG]

a grande maioria dos programas desenvolvidos funcionam tanto num como no outro e não necessitam das novas funcionalidades oferecidas pelo Vista... por isso é mais que normal