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Why not just use Visual Studio 2008 or 2010? XP is a drag on new development paradigms and practices they want to get rid of.
by recoiledsnake 15y ago
Why not just use Visual Studio 2008 or 2010? XP is a drag on new development paradigms and practices they want to get rid of.
- coffeeaddicted 15y agoSure, using an old VS is the obvious workaround, but that doesn't really make VS 2011 better. And well - good for them if they can afford to just cut old ties, unfortunately many of us don't have that luxury. I thought market of XP is down to 20-30% by now and falling (but maybe that's only true for typical gaming systems), but that's still a rather big market share to ignore for now.
- acqq 15y agoI've just did some calculations: if there have been around 1 billion PC's in 2008 http://www.worldometers.info/computers/ http://www.worldometers.info/computers/ and there should be 2 billions in 2015, let's assume there's at least 1.4 billion PC's at the moment now. Even if XP has just 25% percent of that, it's 350 million of PC's in the world on which the executable built with VS 11 can't work.
- socially-distnt 15y agoto me that sounds like a market waiting to be developed: some enterprising (get it?) coder can cook up an IDE and compiler and target the XP market.
- acqq 15y agoThey actually prevent you to use some elementary standard C++ constructs which are in newer VS but not in VS 2008. I hope you understand that you'd be able to write the same standard C++ code independently of the XP or Windows 7 had MSFT not removed some previously existing code sections from the DLL's linked with VS 11. Yes I believe you're right when you say: "new development paradigms and practices they want to get rid of" even if it is a Freudian slip.