Mimi listed "Vista sidebar" as one of the widget containers. I thought
it might be worth having a general conversation about Vista support for
both desktop and widgets. We could make decisions differently for each
-- afaik there is no technical reason why we would need to support Vista
on the desktop to do a Vista sidebar widget. If we think the time is
right for a Vista sidebar widget though, that calls into question why
we're not supporting Vista on the desktop.
For context, operating system market share as of Jan 2008, according to
one report:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10
- 75% Windows XP
- 12% Windows Vista
- 4.3% Mac intel
- 3.3% Mac ppc
- 2.7% Windows 2000
- 0.67% Linux
- 2% Other
Jared, any input on % Vista users we see on Hub or the website?
Questions:
- What infrastructure do we need to do Vista sidebar widgets or support
Vista on the desktop? How many Vista licenses, any new hardware?
- Should we bite the bullet and officially support Vista on the desktop?
(Or perhaps the better question is, When?)
Fwiw, I ran across a tool that generates osx and vista widgets from web
widgets when looking up how similar vista widgets were to osx widgets:
http://www.amnestywidgets.com/Products.html
Cheers,
Katie
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