ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

[Jim Ault]

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