May 16, 2008 at 15:06Developers explain why they avoid new features "Vista"
The latest survey of Windows developers conducted by EDC showed that only 8% of them create code specifically for Windows Vista . “You know, none of our customers required an interface for WPF,” explains a representative of one of the development companies, discussing one of the most revolutionary innovations in Vista, that is, the Windows Presentation Foundation graphics subsystem. Actually, very few customers really need the beauty of Aero and DirectX 10, these attempts by Microsoft to catch up with the “poppies” in beauty are incomprehensible to the corporate customer.
We must give credit to Microsoft that most forms, ASP.Net, Windows Forms, and other Windows XP standards work fine under the new operating system, so it’s not necessary to switch to some new standards. However, due to good compatibility, Microsoft is at real risk that its new technologies may be ignored by the development community. This primarily concerns WPF, gadgets for the sidebar and the XPS print format, which is positioned as an alternative to PDF. Moreover, in the future Windows 7, which is now in development, new standards will appear, and they will also need to be promoted somehow. At the same time with Vista, about a dozen new technologies “fell” onto the developers, but only two or three of them were really in demand. Actually, the Vista user base has still not reached a critical mass,
Corporate systems are also far from mass migration to Vista. According to company statistics, about 20% of corporate software running under XP does not work under the new OS, mainly due to the presence of pieces of older code left over from previous OSs. This percentage rises to almost 50%, considering the direct migration from 32-bit XP to 64-bit Vista.
An EDC survey also showed that Windows developers are creating more and more web-based applications because they are more flexible and easy to support, so now many are abandoning the use of VB6 and .Net.
We must give credit to Microsoft that most forms, ASP.Net, Windows Forms, and other Windows XP standards work fine under the new operating system, so it’s not necessary to switch to some new standards. However, due to good compatibility, Microsoft is at real risk that its new technologies may be ignored by the development community. This primarily concerns WPF, gadgets for the sidebar and the XPS print format, which is positioned as an alternative to PDF. Moreover, in the future Windows 7, which is now in development, new standards will appear, and they will also need to be promoted somehow. At the same time with Vista, about a dozen new technologies “fell” onto the developers, but only two or three of them were really in demand. Actually, the Vista user base has still not reached a critical mass,
Corporate systems are also far from mass migration to Vista. According to company statistics, about 20% of corporate software running under XP does not work under the new OS, mainly due to the presence of pieces of older code left over from previous OSs. This percentage rises to almost 50%, considering the direct migration from 32-bit XP to 64-bit Vista.
An EDC survey also showed that Windows developers are creating more and more web-based applications because they are more flexible and easy to support, so now many are abandoning the use of VB6 and .Net.