[casual_games] languages... (that's an 's' at the end!)

[Charles Parcell]

I believe that I saw somewhere that Windows XP has a 65% penetration at 
the moment. I don't think that it made a distinction between SP versions 
though.

Charles P.


Lionel barret De Nazaris wrote:
> Jonas Beckeman wrote:
>> Seems I'm the only one who's gonna stand up for .NET here, so I'd 
>> better do
>> it tall...
>>
>> Before I get off on how great it is, let me state some problems that 
>> may be
>> enough to make you look in other directions:
>> * .NET games need the .NET framework. The 2.0 beta is 25 MB.
>> * You'll probably want to use Managed DirectX. The distribution model is
>> still very unclear to me, I don't know myself how large the add-on 
>> is, or
>> even how to obtain it without downloading the DirectX SDK
> A friend told me that the .Net Framework is included in the XP Service 
> Pack 2, if so, the problem of the huge download could be avoided.
> Does anybody could confirm this ? And do we have numbers about the % 
> of penetration of XP Service Pack 2 on the machine of the potential 
> players ? Well, a percentage of machine with XP Service Pack 2 on the 
> global number of windows anyway.
>
> Lionel
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