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As a C# developer this is great news for me. Finally, I can join the mobile crowd.
by sapper2 15y ago
As a C# developer this is great news for me. Finally, I can join the mobile crowd.
- bradhe 15y agoJoin the mobile crowd? What about WP7? /sarcasm
- binarycheese 15y agoWP7 requires Windows 7 and a lot of us are still developing on XP
- bradhe 15y agoWhat really? Why? Edit: Why am I getting downvoted for this? Someone give me a legit reason as to why you'd choose a 10-year-old, nearly obsolete OS over an industry-leading one.
- victorantos 15y agowindows 7 is the best OS, devs that are using XP are not real devs
- bradhe 15y agoI wouldn't go that far but I would definitely say that if you're on XP you're being quite short-sighted.
- arrogant 15y agoI think the point here is that the developers themselves aren't generally the ones that are choosing to use XP: they're stuck on the platform that the IT department supports. Getting upgrades can be challenging, especially in a large corporate environment.
- HockeyBiasDotCo 15y agoIndeed. That is the case in many places throughout the Twin Cities and I doubt it is unique to this region.
- HockeyBiasDotCo 15y agoI disagree. Many large corps. still use XP. There thousands of 'real devs' using XP.
- rbanffy 15y agoBut if their job requires them to develop for WP7 then it's easy to procure a second Win 7 PC. Back in 2002 I had two PCs on my desk. One I had Administrator access and where I could run Visual C++ and the Windows CE toolchain hooked up to a prototype voting ballot and the other that was connected to the corporate network where I could read e-mail. At the time, of course, both ran the same OS, but I gather it's more or less the same idea. If WP7 is his hobby, I assume using Windows 7 is not a big deal.
- nigelsampson 15y agoThe development tools require either Vista or Windows 7 as per the release notes http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/7/7/177D6AF8-17FA-40E7-AB53-00B7CED31729/Release%20Notes%20-%20WPDT%20RTM.htm http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/7/7/177D6AF8-17FA-4...
- allwein 15y agoI'm already developing natively for iPhone and Windows Phone 7. I hate Java with a passion, so this is probably the only way I'd ever get around to working on Android apps.