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Member 10199699 12-Aug-13 13:46pm View

Thank you Sergey and Ron,

I was aware of the .NET version issue of XP.

I know this question was very open ended and doesn’t have a simple single answer and requires you to be a mind reader (apologies for that). As I said it’s been a long time since we had to deal with a single user, windows desktop application and were hoping that things may have improved. I remember the problems and issues with MFC from the late 90’s and stayed away from it at that time and it looks like nothing has changed there.

We have some concerns regarding .NET and the target audience and perhaps we’re making a bad assumption here. A significant percentage of the potential market is not very system savvy. They’re the ones that have issues installing products and strange things happening on their systems and having to reinstall or take a lot of support. So we were concerned about them having to install .NET and get it right, especially the XP users. Are we being too cautious here? We may rethink the XP issue, since it's end of life is coming up soon, but a lot of these users will probably stay with it until thier machines die.

In any case, we're going to run a couple of trials and then make a decision on whether to use .NET which is where most of our expertise lies.