Cost and time are the two critical factors in this market and a Spartan- enabled development solution that gives designers access to all the required functionality for a wide range of display products will provide significant benefits in both areas. By combining the application expertise of our partner Tokyo Electron Device with the programmability and capabilities of our Spartan-3E family, developers can keep pace with the dynamic requirements of the display market.
Quotes about programmability (3 Quotes)
They've really done a 180 on this. The new fix that they have in Beta right now for Outlook completely removes programmability except as manually authorized in each case by the user. And this will break, frankly, a large number of corporate applications, but for the general user this is the right thing to do.
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.