Vista Blog

We must admit that it’s pretty obvious for all to see that developers have been excruciatingly slow to the table in writing programs for Windows Vista, which seems odd to us. With over 140 million copies sold thus far it would appear that the market is there but lack of interest by developers themselves may be hurting the marketplace. It doesn’t help that Vista’s difficulties have been more than well publicized over the past year plus but it’s upside is at least just as strong.

A recent Computerworld.com survey shows that a mere 8% of devalopers (from 380) are currently writing apps for Vista, while a whopping 49% are still writing for XP, interestingly though is that still another 9% (more than for Vista) are writing Linux applications.

This could be changing however, as this same survey discovered that about 29% suggest they will still be developing for XP next year, while 24% or triple this years total will be writing Vista applications in 2009.

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