“The upstart operating system that many IT experts believe
will one day rival Microsoft’s Windows, may be the toast of Wall
Street but it is still run on only about 3 per cent of desktop
computers.“
“Some say this is because it is a system written by geeks for
geeks. But at least two projects developing free or open source
software want to change that by making Linux more user-friendly.
One is Gnome, the GNU Network Object Modelling Environment, and the
other is KDE, the K Desktop Environment.”
“The projects aim not only to give Linux an attractive graphical
user interface, but both have their own office suites, which may
one day compete with Microsoft’s widely used Office. KOffice
includes KWord, KSpread, KPresenter and KMail – replacements for
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook respectively – while
Katabase will be an alternative to Microsoft Access.”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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