"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:

>If you were a software developer,
>why would you write software just for Vista

Exactly.

Developers try to write software for the biggest user base. That way
they can sell more software and make more money. But there comes a
time when the expense of making software backwards compatible with old
OSs no longer makes economic sense. In most cases that's long before
an OS is 10 years old.

>when it isn't hard to make it Windows XP SP2 compatible too?

Exactly.

Much new software now requires at least XP SP2.
XP SP2 is only *5* years old...

BTW I remember having a similar discussion in the Palm Pilot groups
about 5 years ago about the coming demise of the Palm OS.
So far I'm 1 for 1... ;)


>Well they [MS] have to come up with something [W7 basic] for netbooks.

When launched I predict that W7 basic will immediately take a
commanding lead in netbook sales. I further predict that XP will take
cliff dive in netbook sales. Well, that last prediction is kind of a
'duh' statement since MS will have stopped netbook XP sales. In any
case if you don't believe my predictions you're welcome to come over
and check my crystal balls... 8-O