"Over the past few years, Linux has been hitting Windows hard in
different places and, blow by blow, won points against the OS
behemoth. Good application software is an important selling point
for any operating system, and good development tools are crucial to
those writing application software. The leading desktop operating
system, Microsoft Windows, has a strong integrated development
environment (IDE) in Visual Studio .Net, while the upstart Linux
platform's KDE environment has KDevelop. Let's pitch them against
each other and see which ends up the last IDE standing..."