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

[Lionel barret De Nazaris]

got that : http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8359.
the bottom line (according to the source) :  "That means Microsoft 
distributed 58.8 percent as many copies of SP2 as of Windows XP."
Even if  XP has 80 % (a wild guess) of the windows installed PCs, it's 
not very encouraging ...
Maybe in one year....

L.


Charles Parcell wrote:
> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> Casual_Games mailing list
>> Casual_Games at igda.org
>> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/casual_games
>>
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Casual_Games mailing list
> Casual_Games at igda.org
> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/casual_games
>
>