[arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 10/26/2009 01:30 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> I think the biggest problem 
> that kde4 will have to overcome is the stain on kde's reputation caused when a 
> few major distros pushed kde4 out the door as a "New Desktop" when it was 
> barely beta (kde 4.04 was released by SuSE as the desktop for 11.0 in June 
> 2008) kde4.04 as a desktop -- gimme a break!

... which was caused by the KDE devs' bad decision to release it as 4.0, 
which set everyone's expectations that it was production-ready software. 
  Had they labeled the whole 4.0 series (and possibly even the 4.1's) as 
beta software, that wouldn't have happened.

DR