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http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-2.0alpha8.php

This is the first KOffice release to be available on all three major platforms: Unix, Windows and MacOS X. This fact is the result of the work of the astonishing KDE-on-Windows and KDE-on-MacOS groups.

Download http://www.koffice.org/releases/2.0alpha8-release.php

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I'm using Pages, and this won't make me change. Office for Mac is horrible, and this has a poorly integrated UI.

Pages, on the other hand, can produce some excellent-looking documents (I've found). I tend to mail PDFs to people (which I'm sure they hate), although it does support Office 2008 documents. If PDFs were as easy to view as they are on the Mac, I'm sure everybody would use them. I'm looking forward to native PDF viewing in Windows/Linux (if Linux doesn't have it already), given Adobe's recent ISO announcement.

I'm looking forward to native PDF viewing in Windows/Linux (if Linux doesn't have it already), given Adobe's recent ISO announcement.

Most Linux distros come with viewers out of the box that use a certain library (sorry, can't remember its name) which can open most PDFs on the 'net. I believe it's up to Adobe PDF version 1.5?

It would be nice if MS could build PDF support into the OS. But hell, they can't include a free Word document viewer for THEIR OWN FORMAT that just views the text and nothing else (like Word Viewer for Windows 95) without anyone screaming the A word. WordPad doesn't cut it either. So what makes anyone think PDF support in Windows will be like what it is on OS X?

Let's just say that KDE on Windows surely still has a LONG way to go...

Personally, I'd say their desktop environment UI still has a long way to go in terms of professionalism, but alas.

It would be great if it doesn't crash all the time and has many features missing from the Windows version.

The current windows version is simply completely unusable.

Well, the version there is alpha software... probably best really just to play about with and send in bug reports and improvement advice to the developers.

Well, the version there is alpha software... probably best really just to play about with and send in bug reports and improvement advice to the developers.

well, then the Windows alpha is way worse than the Linux alpha.

I send some bug reports for KDE on Linux, but for the Windows version I'd rather save my breath until they actually make it work without causing dozens of fatal errors.

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