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Tons of people prefer the Microsoft environment. Neither Google nor Apple have offered many of these people what they want in a dev environment. Apple's requir
by gte910h 16y ago
Tons of people prefer the Microsoft environment.
Neither Google nor Apple have offered many of these people what they want in a dev environment. Apple's required an odd language up until very recently, and even the C# language you can write to doesn't do many of the things they're used to doing C# in.
Android's development resources are capable, but Eclipse is a far cry from Visual Studio...
I assume tons of people will flock to the Win7 Phones unless they are just horrible once they get going.
Many game companies can target this platform much more easily than the iPhone/Android handsets as it also works off XNA.
- glhaynes 16y agoMany game companies can target this platform much more easily than the iPhone/Android handsets as it also works off XNA. Seems like its lack of OpenGL offsets that a good bit... yes, a lot of Xbox/Windows games will be easy to port, but it seems like more ports will likely to be coming from iPhone/Android.
- glhaynes 16y agoFollowing up to myself here: this could have some interesting benefits for Microsoft, too — iPhone has the most/best games right now, but Android is selling a ton of units so lots of folks are thinking about porting their iPhone games to Android. If WP7 was the inverse of what it is (if it had OpenGL and no XNA), it'd be seen as the third platform, something to maybe, possibly consider porting to once you'd ported to Android. That doesn't seem desirable at all. At least with XNA, they'll have the possibility of getting a lot of different games than what is available on iPhone and Android... some differentiation, which is exactly what they need.
- tomh- 16y agoThe tools don't matter, it might be nice, but even though "tons of people prefer the Microsoft environment" I can't recall the last time they produced a product having superior user experience thanks to those tools. I can't name a single website/webapp/desktop app that I enjoy using on a daily base made with visual studio. I know a lot of the game companies use visual studio (c++) to produce parts of their games, but I'm not sure which of the latest games are produced using XNA. My point is the tools don't matter as much as the strategy and decisions of Microsoft in other parts of the ecosystem to attract talent to produce content for their devices.
- bananaandapple 16y agoI use windows 7 on a daily basis and I enjoy it! And I bet it's made with visual studio.
- tomh- 16y agoI totally forgot about Windows somehow, I use it on a daily base too and I'm very happy with it :)
- sterwill 16y agoThat may not be a safe assumption.
- daeken 16y agoBut it's a correct one. Razzle is used internally for building the kernel and drivers, but the majority (I believe?) of the userspace is done using VS.
- sterwill 16y agoI heard from a former Windows team member that Source Insight was popular a few years ago, but things have probably changed.
- kenjackson 16y ago