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Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it - TechAmok
Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it - [software] 07:21 AM EDT - Jun,17 2008 - post a comment 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. |
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