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Review of KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8 – On Windows
4WebChimps writes "As featured previously on Slashdot, the KOffice project is working towards a cross-platform, open source office suite for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. The most recent release, KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8, achieved that goal by being the first release for all three operating systems simultaneously. Want to try KOffice on Windows? TechWorld has a review (with screenshots) of KOffice on Windows, including the installation process which is as simple as clicking a few buttons (the online installer does the rest). Hopefully it won't be long before KOffice sits alongside OpenOffice.org as a usable cross-platform open source productivity suite."
You've got to be kidding me. Supporting Java, even something as simple as applets, across multiple platforms is a nightmare. The number of GUI bugs and inconsistencies is astounding, both in AWT and Swing. Supporting Mac is especially fun, since it has its own Java implementation, with its own set of bugs and oddities. And then there's the fact that different versions of Java, even different sub-versions, have their sets of problems, so workarounds need to be able to work with different sets of bugs. It's really a nightmare. I'm not saying C++ is better, b/c it's not, but Java does NOT shine in any way, shape or form.