Survey: Programmers shunning Vista for Mac OS and Linux
June 17th, 2008 by Giles Smith“Developers,” a VP at Electronic Arts once told me, explaining why there were so many me-too Windows applications, “will walk through the desert in their socks to get to an installed base.”
True enough. But it doesn’t quite explain the results of a survey issued last week by Evans Data Corp. The headline was that most developers are still not targeting Windows Vista when they write new apps. Only 8% of the 380 developers surveyed were writing for Vista; 49% were still targeting Windows XP.
I welcome any increase in development of non Windows Software, even if it is mainly an increase for a Macs (which I dislike only slightly less than Windowz).
As a Linux user and LAMP developer I have been very happy to see an increase in software dedicated to the linux environment. Up until the last few years Linux desktop users have had to put up with ported versions of windows software that often requires quite an advanced knowledge of wine to get working, but now dedicated LInux software is emergine that not only competes with Windows based software, now quite often outperforms it on both a funcationality and an efficiency front.
I still think Macs are far to slow to be any real competition to windows though…
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July 12th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Macs kick the crap out of Linux! Mwwwoooohahahahahhahaa! They are for people who realise that computers should be as functional as… hairdryers. Linux is like building your own car in order to pop out to the corner shop.
I wonder if I shall get away with this nonsense. I miss my mac.