"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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Member since:2006-01-14
I'm not going to attempt to pass this off as some sort of fact that I can prove, because I can't. But, I truly believe the number one reason people can't, don't or won't switch to Linux from Windows is the applications.
I think the better question is, "If all of the good applications are ported to Windows, what's to stop someone from moving away from Windows? None. That's what people like you don't get about this."
Member since:2005-07-06
I think the better question is, "If all of the good applications are ported to Windows, what's to stop someone from moving away from Windows? None. That's what people like you don't get about this."
That statement is just absolutely ludicrous. You're asking 'What's to stop someone from moving away from Windows?' There isn't an action implied anywhere in that question. The real question is 'What's going to make someone actually make the move from Windows to something else?' If all the good applications are ported to Windows then it's certainly not the applications that are going to make people move. If not them then nothing is going to give people the incentive to move.
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2005-07-06
I think this can be translated to "Microsoft Thinking" vs. "Open Thinking".
You have those two the wrong way around. The Microsoft thinking is to get developers to port applications to Windows in order to get users to stay there.
I love the fact that I will be able to run KDE apps on Windows, BSD and Linux because I have to run Windows at work and, on occasion, at home too.
If all the good applications are ported to Windows, what incentive does your work environment have to switching away from Windows? None. That's what people just don't get about this.
Edited 2007-10-10 10:50