ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Hey, I just thought I'd ask. You're lucky I haven't asked some of the  
harder questions.

Joe Wilkins

On Feb 22, 2007, at 11:10 PM, Jim Ault wrote:

>
> On 2/22/07 10:12 PM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <pepetoo at Cox.Net> wrote:
>
>> Sometimes I wonder if catering to this Window's mess is really worth
>> all the effort. After all, Cadillac was profitable and viable for
>> years and years by just providing the best available car at a premium
>> price to less than 5% of the market. Why should we worry about the
>> other 95%?
>
> Developers make a living by delivering software:
> -to as many people as possible, and profitable
> -to existing clients who upgrade to new networks and operating systems
> -to those clients who moved from Mac OS 9 to OSX
> -to those clients who are using any and all of the browsers
> -to those clients who used to have Novell networks
> -to those clients who operate mixed networks, like publishing firms
>
> Developers who want to profit by their body of work and experience:
> -without becoming obsolete
> -taking advantage of the tech support problems that will be coming
> -not losing ground to competitor products
>
> Developers who realize that Rev can still go forward as a cross- 
> plat dev
> tool with a small learning curve.
>
> Developers who realize that this is YAFITR
> (yet another fork in the road)
> and that this is probably a Linux conspiracy to gain market share :-)
>
> Besides, how many third world countries will be able to invest in  
> Vista and
> run it on older equipment.  How about the education market around  
> the world
> and the US?  Paying top dollar for equipment and operating systems/ 
> software
> is out of reach.
>
> Plus, for us, Rev is Vista-ready now !!
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
>
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