InfoWorld recently ran an article by Eric Lai of our sister publication ComputerWorld called Developers explain why they're avoiding Vista. I'm afraid that for me, and probably for most of you, this falls in the "D'oh" department. The subhead of the article is "Fewer than 1 in 12 programmers is currently writing applications targeting Microsoft's Vista operating system." Again, "D'oh.&qu InfoWorld recently ran an article by Eric Lai of our sister publication ComputerWorld called Developers explain why they’re avoiding Vista. I’m afraid that for me, and probably for most of you, this falls in the “D’oh” department.The subhead of the article is “Fewer than 1 in 12 programmers is currently writing applications targeting Microsoft’s Vista operating system.” Again, “D’oh.”If I’m going to develop a product, I want someone to pay for it. That can be the company that wants it, or end users, or both. (OK, I’ve occasionally been suckered into developing for equity, but the equity never materializes, and I’d better stop here before I say something that would upset IDG’s lawyers.) Here’s the current overall Windows market share picture, as tracked by PC Pitstop:That’s not yet a compelling case for writing software that requires Windows Vista: 80% of the total market wouldn’t or couldn’t run it. I would expect the situation to be worse for business, and it is:So over 90% of the business market couldn’t or wouldn’t run a Vista application. The new technology introduced with Windows Vista is seriously cool, and I’m learning about it all the time. But there has to be a market before I’ll devote large chunks of my time to developing for it, unless the technology makes something possible that was previously impossible, or makes something easy that was previously prohibitively time-consuming.What do you think? Are you developing with Vista technologies? Software Development