Developers shunning Windows Vista?
WinInfo | at | by Mike
I love stories like this because they confirm my belief that no story about Windows Vista can be negative enough... or baloney enough. An "analyst house" no one's ever heard of before-- Evans Data, if you're curious--is now the expert on such matters because, you know, they're criticizing Windows Vista. They say that only 8 percent of developers are working on Vista-specific applications (that is, applications that run only on Windows Vista) as opposed to almost 50 percent who are writing XP-specific applications. Wow, that is fascinating, and while I suppose it's shocking that developers would want to target, say, every single PC on the planet instead of the 8 to 10 percent that are currently running Vista, let's look at this another way. Back in 2002, please tell me what percentage of developers were writing applications that would run only on XP, and not on older Windows versions like Windows 2000 or 98? That's right: None of them. And now for bonus points, please tell me what those XP-specific technologies were that developers were supposed to be targeting back then. That's right, you can't. So this report is both pointless and non-newsworthy, and shame on everyone who treated it otherwise. Moving on.