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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2005-08-15
KDE-base 'is' being ported to windows,i.e. phonon uses the directsound from windows, for clipboard the same things can be achieved.
Porting the apps seperatly solves nothing, it's the base that covers the hardest part of the crossplatform things. Amarok, Konqueror, Koffice... all will be easy to port once kde-base is ported(which already has been done for the most part, if I'm not mistaken) (alongside with the native windows Qt-framework), KDE is so strong because of the platform they created not because of the seperate apps (though now, because kdebase makes it easier to create great aps, they have in my opinion some of the best pieces of software floating around).
One thing a lot of people forget is that there's a huge windows userbase that might want to start helping with the coding once there's a windows version of i.e. Koffice. A lot of people that perhaps might want to translate, a lot of people that just might help improve KDE, and what's good for KDE, is good for linux as well. Will it make a difference for Linux adoption? perhaps not, will it make the life of linux users easier? Most certainly, since KDE uses a lot of open standards and open protocols, so KDE adoption results in open-standards and open-protocols adoption.