OT: Siemens sees Linux desktops at 20% of market by 2008 --recommends GNOME over KDE

[Rolf Magnus]

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On Friday 15 August 2003 18:37, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:

>    "Siemens has no 'religious' attachment to a particular distro
>     or desktop environment. Before settling on Ximian, Siemens
>     evaluated plain vanilla Gnome and KDE as well. Siemens found
>     KDE to be more 'Windows-like' than Gnome, but that lead to
>     problems when non-technical users expected a more Windows-like
>     experience. Gnome, particularly Ximian's version, was 'different
>     enough" to set user expectations that the experience would be
>     less like Windows, which led to fewer adoption problems.'"

I don't fully understand that. They prefer Gnome for "non-technical" users, 
because those are more familiar with Windows and KDE is more similar to 
Windows than Gnome? Or do they mean that those users are sick of Windows and 
want something that looks "different enough"?
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