"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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Member since:2005-07-06
> IMO KOffice and Kontact would make very good
> candidates/apps to push towards Windows users.
i agree but perhaps for different reasons than you.
koffice and kontact are both ways to spread cross-platfor, open standards. koffice for odf and kontact for "things that aren't exchange but do groupware"
> Properly hyped, Konqueror could even trump the
> mighty Firefox.
the khtml part of it is indeed the more interesting bit for several reasons, all of which stem from the fact that it is easily portable and easily embedable.
this is making it attractive for many projects ranging from safari to adobe apollo to nokia's handsets to ... with kde4 it will be easier than ever to access and use an embeddable khtml component across platforms (bye-bye ie component?).
bewteen these various products khtml could quickly hit market share numbers that are quite impressive.
> 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.
a) the mac folks have multi-million dollar promotional budgets
b) compare kde's current promo to 5 years ago. extrapolate.
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2005-06-29
@segedunum
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.