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Vistas big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505 3-9969231-16.html

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Old story. Actually the story was about shit programmers who had to
have programs running as administrator in order to get them to work.

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BillW50 wrote:

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Windows 7 is not that far off in the future, and then vistas days will be
numbered... XP is still a lot better in many areas, all the stuff you
purchased works with it... Windows 7 is reported to let you use your old
stiff again, it will run both vista and windows XP drivers...

Maybe no DRM will police be included in windows 7, only at release time will
any one have the answer on that front...

JR tyhe postman

In article news:,
BillW50 wrote:

Not surprised to hear it! The big increase in development for Mac
reported there (380%) is slightly surprising, but welcome.

Im a developer. I dont ignore Vista (we test on it) but I certainly
wouldnt make use of any feature in Vista that would prevent my apps
from running on XP (or Win2k, for that matter).

Vista has useful improvements -- particularly in security -- that are
worth having, but nothing that couldnt be retro-fitted into XP (and
little that cant be done in XP OOTB). Almost everything else is either
eye-candy or evil pointless DRM.

Cheers,
Daniel.

In article news:, Postman Delivers
wrote:

But what will Windows 7 be like? If its more of the same -- and surely
it will be -- then it will be even more unpopular than Vista.

[followup ignored, newsgroups trimmed ... but whats this got to do with
laptops anyway?]

Cheers,
Daniel.

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:59:44 -0500, BillW50 wrote:



If true, Id say they all cant be wrong and have good reason to do
so. I was going to switch OSs but after reading at least 90%
negative opinions, I decided to stay with XP. The improvements vs.
the incompatibilities (tho I understand it has improved) is not worth
the trouble to me. I just read yesterday or so, the only real
improvement is in security and thats about it and I think with 3rd
party security Im in as good as shape as Id be with Vista; hence no
reason for me to switch nowadays. I also read Corporate users will
likely skip Vista too.

In news:VA.00001431.28da2854@nospam.aaisp.org,
Daniel James typed on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:56:52 +0100:

Hi Daniel! What planet are you from? As those of us on planet Earth, I
would say 95% of us who buys laptops will get a Vista installed whether
we like it or not. It is just as relevant to laptops as glossy or
non-glossy screens. ;-)

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