Report: Developers not writing for Vista; Mac ‘skyrockets’ as targeted development platform
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jun 16, 2008 at 5:35pm
A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year, reports Computerworld. Corresponding data shows 49 percent of developers are writing applications for Windows XP.
The Mac OS has rocketed by 380 percent as a targeted development platform, Evans Data told Computerworld. “With Linux and the Mac taking ever-increasing shares of the developer pie, Microsoft would do well to shore up developer support for Windows,” the article adds. You can read it in its entirety here.
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Will Says:
That’s honestly just a load of crud.
It’s like if I were a mac dev and saying my app will only run on OS X 10.5 but not on 10.4. But the reality is if I write any app for mac, it’ll run on both.
There’s not actually much new that will run only on Vista but not on XP.
Aside from that, most new development these days (especially business apps) target the web. I’ve recently been looking for new work, and as a developer, I must say, the large majority of job adverts were for web based development (intranet/internet).
Posted on June 16, 2008