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A Look at Ximian Desktop 2A Look at Ximian Desktop 2Posted Jun 12, 2003 23:21 UTC (Thu) by dash2 (guest, #11869)In reply to: A Look at Ximian Desktop 2 by mdekkers Parent article: A Look at Ximian Desktop 2 Unfortunately, it is just a fact that in vast amounts of the business world, Microsoft is the standard. Also, very few corporations will switch over to Linux in a single move - they'll dip their toe in the water with a department here, an office there. In these circumstances, making MS formats the default is probably quite sensible. It is no different from what MS itself did in order to gain market share: providing lots of compatibility with the existing market leaders. Like them, we can move away from this once we have a greater market share ourselves (although unlike them, we'll be moving towards open, freely documented standards). But there is no point sending someone a document in a format their word processor cannot read, no matter how many standards that format complies with. As for configurability... well, let the best desktop win. I am a long-time KDE fan but I do look with envy on the cleanness and simplicity of Gnome.
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