Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Jan 2008 12:00 UTC
KDE 4.0.0 has been released onto the world. "The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era." KDE 4.0 is the first release of "KDE 4", but take note that the developers have clearly stated that KDE 4.0 is not KDE 4, but more of a base release with all the underlying systems ready to go, but with still a lot of work to be done on the user-visible side. Download it from the KDE 4.0 info page. Update: Screenshots.
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I believe that the goal of the Windows (and Mac) port is NOT to provide a complete KDE4 desktop, but rather to port the development and runtime environments to Windows. So you'll still be using your Windows desktop (start menu, aero, etc). No KWin or Plasma, as these are X11-specific components. You'll be able to run any application written for KDE4, these apps will integrate tightly with each other as they do on *nix, and you'll be able to develop applications based on the KDE4 platform.
The overarching goal is to make KDE4 the premier cross-platform development framework, providing extremely high-level abstractions (e.g. KParts) not found in any other environment. They really don't have any interest in bringing the KDE4 desktop shell to Windows or Mac. If these users like the apps but want the desktop, then they'll have to switch to Linux, BSD, or Solaris. So there's still some incentive to "switch".