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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Oct 2007 12:27 UTC, submitted by Sandro Hartley

"While the industry is distracted by the ongoing tussle between Microsoft and OpenOffice.org over document formats, the KDE project is quietly preparing the next generation of its own office suite, KOffice, for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. KOffice 2.0, to be released sometime in the first half of 2008, will be cross platform like many other applications in the KDE suite built with the Qt4 GUI toolkit."

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RE: cross platform is an advantage

by KugelKurt on Tue 9th Oct 2007 21:18 UTC in reply to "cross platform is an advantage"

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Kugler believes it is "hard to say" one way or another if KOffice 2.0 on Windows and Mac OS X will benefit KDE on Linux.

The new music notation feature for KOffice 2.0 was developed by a Mac developer under Mac OS X.

KHTML also attracted Mac developers (Apple itself). KHTML/WebKit improved a lot thanks to its development on Mac OS X (eg its Acid2 support).

Thanks to Mac developers KDE/KOffice gained important features. Now imagine a horde of Windows developers doing additional work KDE/KOffice.

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