8 percent Develop for Windows Vista
June 30, 2008 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
Analyst Evans Data Corporation has reported that only 8 percent of developers are targetting Windows Vista while 49 percent are still developing for Windows XP.
John Andrews, CEO & president of Evans Data, says developers are on a wait-and-see mode on Vista because of driver issues, software incompatibility and steep hardware requirements.
It’s pretty ironic since developer’s are on a wait and see mode expecting that software and driver compatibilities would vanish when in fact, 49% of these folks are contributing to delayed stability of Vista because of their continuous support for XP instead of targeting Vista right away.
The major item that Microsoft needs to solve is the high demand of hardware requirements, and given the current economic state, it would be harder for folks to spend a lot of money for it. If only they made the hardware minimum not as demanding as it is today, then army of developers would have long targeted the new OS.
