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They have only lost the like-minded FOSS developers

Authored by: jonathon on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 03:44 PM EDT

>There are still plenty of people developing for Microsoft after all their
shenanigans.

In the software fields I track, all of the major players dropped WinMo
development when WinMo 7 was announced. Whilst the public/official statement
was that WinMo 6.5 sales were poor, privately/unofficially they all said that
Microsoft had made it too expensive to write and support software for future
versions of WinMo.

I find it telling that none of them have announced plans for Windows 8 support.
Especially since several of them offered beta versions for Win7, specifically
for testing with public beta releases of Win7 by Microsoft.

I wouldn't be surprised if, by the time Windows 9 is released, for the software
fields I track, no programs/applications are available, for any operating system
that is then supported by Microsoft.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Jonathon, which software fields do you track?(n/t, I'm curious) - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 05:39 PM EDT

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