Comments on: Microsoft Shows Up at The Digital Publishing Party http://www.nxtbookmedia.com/blog/2006/05/01/microsoft-shows-up-at-the-digital-publishing-party/ The blog of Nxtbook Media Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:08:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matthew http://www.nxtbookmedia.com/blog/2006/05/01/microsoft-shows-up-at-the-digital-publishing-party/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Matthew Fri, 05 May 2006 02:13:47 +0000 http://nxtbook.com/blog/2006/05/01/microsoft-shows-up-at-the-digital-publishing-party/#comment-51 Thank you for the comment, Nick. I agree that it is possible that Windows machines outside of corporate networks could be quick to install WPF, but only if there are some popular applications coming out that use WPF (I haven't heard of any) or if Microsoft decides to add WPF to the Windows Update install queue, which I believe they did with the .NET framework. However, most coporate networks have strict policies on what gets installed on employees' machines, so it will be much more difficult to get WPF, or the Times Reader for that matter, installed on coporate PCs. In addition, as Marcus notes above, corporations generally take much more time than consumer to upgrade their PCs to the latest version of Windows. Thank you for the comment, Nick. I agree that it is possible that Windows machines outside of corporate networks could be quick to install WPF, but only if there are some popular applications coming out that use WPF (I haven’t heard of any) or if Microsoft decides to add WPF to the Windows Update install queue, which I believe they did with the .NET framework. However, most coporate networks have strict policies on what gets installed on employees’ machines, so it will be much more difficult to get WPF, or the Times Reader for that matter, installed on coporate PCs. In addition, as Marcus notes above, corporations generally take much more time than consumer to upgrade their PCs to the latest version of Windows.

]]> By: Nick Thuesen http://www.nxtbookmedia.com/blog/2006/05/01/microsoft-shows-up-at-the-digital-publishing-party/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Nick Thuesen Thu, 04 May 2006 11:20:54 +0000 http://nxtbook.com/blog/2006/05/01/microsoft-shows-up-at-the-digital-publishing-party/#comment-48 One point about Non-Vista users having to perform an extra install. The install is the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/technologies/presentation/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) </a> platform. If users want to run any APP built on WPF they'll have to have this install. It's a one time hit though so it's very likely that a user will already have it installed before ever reaching your application. Like if they've used Times Reader. It's similiar to how a user has to have the proper .NET installed...kinda. Is this what you were referring to? One point about Non-Vista users having to perform an extra install. The install is the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) platform. If users want to run any APP built on WPF they’ll have to have this install. It’s a one time hit though so it’s very likely that a user will already have it installed before ever reaching your application. Like if they’ve used Times Reader. It’s similiar to how a user has to have the proper .NET installed…kinda.

Is this what you were referring to?

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