“A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year. Eight percent. This is perhaps made even worse by the corresponding data that shows 49 percent of developers writing applications for Windows XP,” Matt Asay reports for CNET.
“Such appreciation for history is not likely to warm the cockles of Microsoft’s heart, especially when Linux is getting lots of love from developers (13 percent writing apps for it this year and 15.5 percent in 2009),” Asay reports.
“The Mac? I don’t have any equivalent data via Evans Data. But the Mac OS has rocketed by 380 percent as a targeted development platform, Evans Data told Computerworld,” Asay reports.
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“‘But the Mac OS has rocketed by 380 percent as a targeted development platform, Evans Data told Computerworld,’ Asay reports.”
The part to care about.
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8% Vista + 49% XP = 57%
Who’s the other 43% writing for? Windows 98???
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so, 8% are writing apps for Vista, 49% for XP, 15-20% for Linux, and 380% for Mac OS X? What is up with these numbers? How about iPhone?
My guess is that the iPhone is up 10000000000000000000000%
Vista is a wonderful product and I would recommend it as a Christmas present for all those you don’t like.
The other 43%? Aside from Mac, Unix and Linux?
Try Windows 2000/NT. Much more stable than XP. Used in mission critical industrial situations world wide.
What a sad commentary on Microsoft’s Me/XP/Vista development.
“Such appreciation for history is not likely to warm the cockles of Microsoft’s heart”
What’s he talking about? Since when did Microshit hever have a heart?!
Did MDN miss all those comments with the .NET explanation?
Steve Ballmer’s got to do the following with this situation:
Stick with Vista for the next 5 years, to encourage switchers!!!
Hasta la Vista, babeh!
Quality. Not quantity thanks.
Aren’t you MAC lemmings lucky. All of those former Windows developers now making their super-great software for MAC. The great thing about Windows is it has so much more software being developed for it, and more is always better. It’s true.
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The comments are interesting – and most flatly contradict the article.
The commenters here on MDN are not well informed and just react to the article without checking any facts.
This is pretty much what most people do anyway, so it’s not anything out of the ordinary.
That’s like watching a 3 Minute and 1 Second slow motion train wreck
Is perverted to continue to look, but hard to avert the eyes
The Humanity
Oh, the Humanity
BC
I’m not sure what our commenter, “Read the Article” (weird name, isn’t it?) is talking about. I read the article and it says exactly the same thing as the MDN summary above. Some of the comments to the article (on CNET) imply that the article is misleading. However, the point is that only 8% of all developers are using Vista features in their applications. I am sure that the percentage of Mac OS X developers that use features available in Leopard is higher, but I have no data to support that.
And as for Mac developers data showing 380% growth, that obviously means (for those who didn’t understand) that if the percentage of Mac developers was 5% before, with 380% growth, it would be 24%. (5 + 5*3.8). Whatever the number before, it is growing much faster than Mac OS X market share, which is excellent. It’s always great to have all these switchers, but it is even better for them to have a lot of software ready when they do switch.
That was too much Ballmer.
uuugh.
Predrag.
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Maybe it’s me that’s ignorant. I did get the part about the 380% growth.
Anyway, what sort of a name is ‘predrag’?
I tried to install a web cam on a PC last night, it didn’t work. Then I plugged it into my Mac and without any drivers it worked perfectly. I think that Windows is dead. Microsoft is finished. Linux is FREE and Macintosh is a Windows killer.
The most interesting part of the article was, in my opinion, the end of the article:
“Indeed. Microsoft doesn’t need to handicap itself on the desktop given its difficulties competing everywhere else. With Linux and the Mac taking ever-increasing shares of the developer pie, Microsoft would do well to shore up developer support for Windows.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, that probably means re-investing in XP and forgetting its “New Coke” moment with Vista.”
OUCH. That said it far better than anything else. Vista is “New Coke.” XP is “Classic” ???? What a SAD SAD commentary.
But true.
Windows Vista has turned out to be one of the most spectacular failures in the history of the computer industry. One might even feel a touch of sympathy if this had happend to any company but Microshaft… er, soft.
What, exactly, is a cockle… I swear I never saw one in all of those bio/anatomy classes I took.
“Who’s the other 43% writing for? Windows 98???”
Platform-agnostic Web-based stuff I guess.