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Sure, 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,
by coffeeaddicted 15y ago
Sure, 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.