With less than a month after KDE 4.0 has been released, the Windows port of KDE 4.0 is now functional. You can now install some KDE 4.0 applications on your Windows 2000,Windows XP and Windows 2003 machines. Sorry Microsoft Vista folks, your OS is not yet supported. To install KDE 4.0 applications, you will be needing an installer, an application which collects the required packages including package dependencies from a remote repository and installs them to your Windows machine, making the installation more user friendly.

Right now, a number of applications such as the KDE games, KWrite, Konqueror, Dolphin file manager are working properly in most installations. However, most other softwares are still buggy, some are and eating up a lot of memory. The good news is that these problems are sure to be ironed out soon. KDE on Windows is mostly in an alpha state, so if you are interested in helping to get some of your favourite KDE applications working properly on Windows, you may write down the bugs you encountered and report them here.KDE 4 on Windows currently support two compilers namely Mingw and Microsoft Visual C++. Since Qt 4 is truly a cross platform library and KDE 4 being built using Qt 4, it is only a matter of time before you see people using KDE applications on Windows.

If you would like to try installing KDE 4.0 applications on your Windows machine, you can go to the step by step installation here.

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