Why do Windows Vista apps still lag behind OSX?

Is it a difference in audience or a difference in OS?

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Third post, no response = little interest.  Sorry man.   :NOTSURE: 
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I don't mean to be brass about this, but a great deal of people who run some sort of MS O/S really could care less about Mac O/S X and the applications available to those who are using O/S X.

You have to remember that only about 7% of the PC users are on a Mac.

Lee
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Having had a quick look at the links you provided I would say that Things, iGTD2 and Omnifocus offer, for most people, the same functionality as Outlook. Your last link is really is a very small niche market and similar products exist for Windows.

This post is like a broken pencil............pointless
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Wow. I thought more people would be interested in this. Guess not. My mistake.

By the way, don't know why there are all those smiley faces... They weren't in the preview when I entered the article.
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I think this is a great post. Microsoft is investing millions of dollars in WPF, and it is true that the .net community is not that excited about it.
Many reasons to that (and I know what I'm talking about). The biggest one is because WPF is something completely new for a windows developper, and it's not easy to learn.
So most of them rather stay on orlder technologies (winform) where they feel more confortable and efficient.
But make no mistake, one day or the other, WPF will prevail, that's for sure !

Here is a WPF application I'm working on : myBoard(the mac os X dashboard on windows)
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Off Topic: Man, I just checked your site... That MyBoard thing you're working on is so cool! :CONGRAT:
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Off Topic: Man, I just checked your site... That MyBoard thing you're working on is so cool!


Thanks, but myBoard is just a glimps of what can be done with WPF. When Microsoft came with .NET 1.0 and winforms a lot developpers though it was pointless and was eating to much ram compared to native C++ application.
The same is now happening with WPF, and it's just a question of time before it get adopted by all developpers.
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myBoard is a neat looking app.
As you progress, please continue to post about it here at WC.   :CONGRAT: 
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I don't know really. Programming for a mac is really easy (thanks to automator and other apps mac's made) Mac is seriously significantly better than Windows. in every aspect. speed, appearance, specs, etc. There's a reason why you're seeing so many more macs today
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Yeah, and mac users are multi-functional too - most of them talk through their arses  ;) 
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Just to elaborate on Fuzzy's 'arses'.........That's 'ass' or 'butt' to those of us in the US  ;)