Hmm - if Vista can go from nowhere to nearly 5% in just 5 months it will
be 20% of the market in no time at all. So I don't think I can leave my
head in the sand and ignore my 3 month old copy of Vista any longer,
especially since I just got my first user problem reported.
Does anyone know if Delphi 5 will successfully install and run under
Vista? So far I haven't paid for an upgrade as D5 does everything I
need (well, so far!)
The problem my user has relates to using the MAPI with Windows Mail - he
gets a "general MAPI error" return code. Guess I will just have to
install Vista and try and recreate the problem.
Regards,
Brendan Blake.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of CubicDesign
Sent: 19 July 2007 14:31
To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List
Subject: Re: Problems while creating/running apps for Vista
Operating System Market Share for June, 2007:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2
82% are Windows XP users.
____________
I started to download some documentation about Vista but now, after I
saw the satistics, I think I won't bother to make my application Vista
ready!
Cosmin was right again. Better to program a cool feature for the 82% of
the users than to waist time for (4.5%) Vista users.
Until the number will go to 20% there is nothing to worry about.
**
Cosmin Prund wrote:
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of CubicDesign
>> Sent: 18 iulie 2007 17:42
>> To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: Problems while creating/running apps for Vista
>>
>> Right again! The real question is how long it will take to appear
>> enough
>> knowledge and documentation for Delphi users, about Vista?
>> By the way: Do you have a statistic about how many users are using
now
>> Vista? I am just curious.
>>
>>
>
> (1) Don't look for Delphi-Vista knowledge, you're limiting the search
> area. Look for "Vista", nothing more. You'll find all the info you
need
> on MSDN (don't buy a subscription, all the info is "live" on
> msdn2.microsoft.com). All you'll need to do is read C++
>
> (2) Unfortunately I already have LOTS of Vista users! Many of my
> customers are government / education institution, and the Ministry of
> Education in Romania bought Vista when it was available for corporate
> users and spread it around the country. It was in my opinion a
mistake,
> not because Vista is bad but because it caught everyone by surprise!
> Poor souls in schools had older computers, unable to handle Vista, and
> got hit hard by the lack of drivers for whatever they needed drivers
> (printers). So I had lots of Guiney-pigs, all of them tolerant to
> mistakes because they were expecting things NOT to work.
>
> Moving forward I'm now recommending Vista on all new computers
> specifically bought to be used with my software.
>
> (3) Ask whatever Vista-questions you have on the list. We all need to
> learn those things, so questions are very welcome, I'm sure. Some of
us
> might have some answers... Hey, you may even post questions AND
answers
> if you got them!
>
> --
> Cosmin Prund
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