To join in with speculation by John Martellaro and others (John suggests that Mac OS X could be partly replacing its rumoured virtual machine to run XP, Vista and Linux, with a Darwine implementation for Vista), I would like to point out that Wine is almost feature-complete for XP, so Apple could give Microsoft a quicker death by quenching Vista in its pram - support XP apps via Darwine NOW, and eradicate any developer desire to support Vista (as it will have smaller market share than XP probably forever). If there are no apps that depend on Vista, consumers likely won't want it either!
Steve Ballmer foresaw it when he chanted "developers, developers, developers, developers" - unless developers use the new Vista features, the platform will die because it does not offer considerable user interface improvements in the way that OS X increments do (Exposé, Spotlight, etc.)
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
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I can't help but remember when people were stating that XP would never rival Windows 2000. Do you really believe what you're saying? Are you choosing to ignore Microsoft's tactical abilities?
Windows 2000 is what we use, if any Windows flavour.
Wait, are you saying that since 3-6% of the market won't use Vista, that it will motivate the rest of the PC industry to boycott the entire system? I'm a dedicated Mac user, and as much influence as Steve Jobs may have in the industry, I hightly doubt that he can influence Windows users to boycott a new operating system.
I'm saying it doesn't make sense for developers to use features that will forbid their programs to run on the Win XP, Mac OS X and Linux installed base. If they develop for XP, their programs can run on all of those. Sure, some Windows users may upgrade, but it won't have any long term effect and bring little revenue to Microsoft. MS Office 12 will run on XP, so where's the need to upgrade?
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