Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Jan 2007 21:01 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
"In this weeks' edition of the Road to KDE 4, we'll take a look at the up and coming KWord 2.0 as part of the KOffice project. KWord 1.6.1 is already a powerful KDE-integrated word processor, but with KDE 4 technologies, KWord 2.0 promises to be among the most powerful free word processors available. Read on for more details."
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No they're not. They're banking on Microsoft Office.
The edit button was greyed out before I could put the word Linux in that phrase.
But the corporate desktop? Not even Open Office is denting that sadly.
That's partly because there are no companies left that are good at pushing desktop corporate software. Novell has no experience on the corporate desktop. It's starting from scratch. IBM could do it but it's out of the game (server only now).
Your comment exemplifies why I think porting Unix and Linux applications to Windows is an absolute waste of everyone's time and effort.
You're putting words into my mouth. It says like it written and that's it. There's no hidden agenda in there.
Developers spend a lot of time and effort porting applications to Windows in the vain hope that people will move to an alternative platform, and what happens? People continue to sit on Windows and use the same applications.
No they don't. They use what's good like VLC.
IMO KOffice and Kontact would make very good candidates/apps to push towards Windows users. Properly hyped, Konqueror could even trump the mighty Firefox.
Frankly, I don't expect much from KDE4 in the form of attracting users to another platform/OS. KDE devs aren't good at hyping their toys like the Mac folks.