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Windows 7 sold 600 million copies. There's your motivation to create Windows 8 apps. Edit: plus, if you're already on a .NET codebase, you can target all of t

by jmcqk6 14y ago

Windows 7 sold 600 million copies. There's your motivation to create Windows 8 apps. Edit: plus, if you're already on a .NET codebase, you can target all of those platforms with minimal fuss (and more).

marshray 14y ago
And every single one of those apps that developers have made for Windows 7 are not "Metro" and not eligible for the Microsoft App Store or to run on mobile devices. Only a few of them are even dotnet. The rest will require a near complete rewrite.
- jimbobimbo 14y ago
  Or, if applications were engineered properly, only UI part will need to be updated.
  - marshray 14y ago
    Have you ever tried porting code to Dotnet/CLR?
    - jmcqk6 14y ago
      I think the point here is that if you have a properly architected .NET application, porting to any of the platforms supported either by microsoft or mono is relatively straight forward. So that would include Windows (all flavors), xbox, windows phone, os x, iOS, Android, linux, playstation, wii, and whatever else the mono folks are cooking up.
      - marshray 14y ago
        Are there any major publishers (or a large number of small ones) shipping apps that use Mono to run on non-Microsoft platforms?
        jimbobimbo 14y ago
        Unity engine does it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29
- kkowalczyk 14y ago
  What he meant was: if Windows 8 sells like Windows 7, and it will, there will be a mind boggling number of users to target. Windows 8 market will quickly be bigger than Mac OS X market because Windows 8 will ship on every new PC being sold. And since there are no apps, there are lots of opportunities just writing the same kind of apps that people have written in the past, except for Metro. It'll be a new gold rush and you can trust me, developers will rush for that new gold.
  - mattmanser 14y ago
    Well, I don't think anyone's expecting it to sell like Windows 7. They're expecting it to 'flop' like Vista. i.e. sell quite a lot but have a large user base sit on Windows 7 waiting for Windows 9 as people sat on XP after Vista.

by jmcqk6 14y ago

marshray 14y ago

And every single one of those apps that developers have made for Windows 7 are not "Metro" and not eligible for the Microsoft App Store or to run on mobile devices. Only a few of them are even dotnet. The rest will require a near complete rewrite.

jimbobimbo 14y ago
Or, if applications were engineered properly, only UI part will need to be updated.
- marshray 14y ago
  Have you ever tried porting code to Dotnet/CLR?
  - jmcqk6 14y ago
    I think the point here is that if you have a properly architected .NET application, porting to any of the platforms supported either by microsoft or mono is relatively straight forward. So that would include Windows (all flavors), xbox, windows phone, os x, iOS, Android, linux, playstation, wii, and whatever else the mono folks are cooking up.
    - marshray 14y ago
      Are there any major publishers (or a large number of small ones) shipping apps that use Mono to run on non-Microsoft platforms?
      - jimbobimbo 14y ago
        Unity engine does it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29
kkowalczyk 14y ago
What he meant was: if Windows 8 sells like Windows 7, and it will, there will be a mind boggling number of users to target. Windows 8 market will quickly be bigger than Mac OS X market because Windows 8 will ship on every new PC being sold. And since there are no apps, there are lots of opportunities just writing the same kind of apps that people have written in the past, except for Metro. It'll be a new gold rush and you can trust me, developers will rush for that new gold.
- mattmanser 14y ago
  Well, I don't think anyone's expecting it to sell like Windows 7. They're expecting it to 'flop' like Vista. i.e. sell quite a lot but have a large user base sit on Windows 7 waiting for Windows 9 as people sat on XP after Vista.