While analysts and media outlets portray Vista as the lonely OS that no one is writing applications for, Randall Kennedy counters that they’re wrong again. “There’s no such thing as a Vista application. Just like there’s no such thing as an XP application. Or a Windows 2000 application. Developers who write for Windows rarely target a specific version. Rather, they select a particular API framework — for example, MFC/ATL or .Net — and proceed from there,” Kennedy explains in The mythical ‘Vista application.’ “So the entire Vista ‘app gap’ argument is a bit of a straw man. The real question should be: Why aren’t developers leveraging the various iterations of the .Net framework?” Software Development