Our goal of Desktop 10 is to build a really easy-to-use, powerful desktop for general knowledge workers. These are people who live in e-mail, in the browser, in the office suite -- not people who need a hundred different applications, but people whose lives really consist of just living in those applications. |
Our turnaround time on fixes for document importing issues is actually averaging 24-48 hours, which is pretty remarkable. |
Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines. |
Right now Linux on the desktop is siphoning workstation users from Solaris and HP-UX. |
There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. |
There's a lot still to do in Evolution. |
This is the right place to put it technically. The X windowing system lies beneath KDE and GNOME. All users, both GNOME and KDE, can take advantage of it. |
This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool. |
Those little things give a desktop a sense of physicality. |
We expect that developers from a variety of projects will come to Better Desktop.org and review these results to see firsthand how they can improve the design of different applications, desktops and distributions. Ultimately, improved usability will help Linux succeed on the desktop. |
We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN. |
We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future. |
We're offloading a lot of the work to the hardware. The result is things look and feel a lot smoother. |
We've really taken the product a long way in the past year, |