[Chandler-dev] Vista?

[Grant Baillie]

 From the desktop client point of view, there are several possible  
levels of support:

1) Dogfooding and testing the existing Windows client on Vista.

2) Having some number of developers use Vista as their full-time  
development platform.

3) Running a Vista tinderbox.

4) Building the app natively on Vista.

Long term, it seems we might be skating on thin ice a little if we  
don't consider 1 or maybe 3. (We kind of have the dogfooding part  
outsourced to one of our users at the moment ;), but maybe there are  
more people to give us coverage.

If we are going to support Vista sidebar widgets, there is also a  
question of how we will build and distribute them. Either we could do  
something pretty ad-hoc (the developer in charge builds a binary), or  
more formal (i.e. have a build machine set up to produce a binary or  
installer).

--Grant

On 25 Feb, 2008, at 14:26, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:

> Mimi listed "Vista sidebar" as one of the widget containers. I  
> thought it might be worth having a general conversation about Vista  
> support for both desktop and widgets. We could make decisions  
> differently for each -- afaik there is no technical reason why we  
> would need to support Vista on the desktop to do a Vista sidebar  
> widget. If we think the time is right for a Vista sidebar widget  
> though, that calls into question why we're not supporting Vista on  
> the desktop.
>
> For context, operating system market share as of Jan 2008, according  
> to one report:
> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10
>
> - 75% Windows XP
> - 12% Windows Vista
> - 4.3% Mac intel
> - 3.3% Mac ppc
> - 2.7% Windows 2000
> - 0.67% Linux
> - 2% Other
>
> Jared, any input on % Vista users we see on Hub or the website?
>
> Questions:
> - What infrastructure do we need to do Vista sidebar widgets or  
> support
> Vista on the desktop? How many Vista licenses, any new hardware?
>
> - Should we bite the bullet and officially support Vista on the  
> desktop?
> (Or perhaps the better question is, When?)
>
> Fwiw, I ran across a tool that generates osx and vista widgets from  
> web widgets when looking up how similar vista widgets were to osx  
> widgets:
> http://www.amnestywidgets.com/Products.html
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
>
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