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Re: don't call them reviews
by Kent Nguyen on Monday 30/Jul/2001, @08:35
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You can never have impartial reviews. There will always be bias based on the "things" you test. What I test makes very much sense to a lot of people and their use. I'm an ordinary spreadsheet user.
Perhaps I will label it personal reviews to satisfy you?
--kent
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Re: don't call them reviews
by will on Wednesday 08/Aug/2001, @11:44
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Hi
Thanks again for your great work! Someone else suggested to call them "guides" which would be better. Although I have a feeling that there is an even better word out there...
Yes, reviews are supposed to be impartial - they should only serve the primary interest of giving an objective assessment of the product. Expressing personal preferences belongs to a review, but that it something else. You are a KDE-developer and the texts are to all appearances an attempt to present the applications in best possible light, serving the external interest of promoting KDE. Nothing wrong with that - that can be the purpose of introductions or marketing material - but out of honesty, just give it the right name.
The specific value of a review consist in the trust you have that that the reviewer has done an impartial assesment for you. There was a scandal recently where it turned out that Sony had printed "reviews" of its own movies. The problem with the Mindcrafts-tests a couple of years ago was precisely that they were felt to be tailormade to put Microsoft in a good light while at the same time hiding this fact (in being a presented as a "test").
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Re: don't call them reviews
by Jeff Lasslett on Saturday 04/Aug/2001, @21:41
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I have only recently become interested in KDE. I've been following the GNOME project for ages. I am thinking of changing over to KDE because I like what I see and what I read about KDE suggests that it is a well designed and well implemented desktop environment.
With this in mind I am endevouring to learn more about KOffice. A good word processor and a good spreadsheet are important to me. I am in search of an impartial, independant review of KWord and/or KSpread. It would be good to find a comprehensive comparison of KSpread vs Excel, or KSpread vs Gnumeric. Similarly, it would be helpful to read a comparison of KWord vs MS Word.
I started reading Kent's reviews with the idea that they would tell me whether or not KWord & KSpread ready for "prime time". After reading his KWord & KSpread "reviews" I am impressed with what he showed me of the applications but not convinced that they will fulfill my word processing and spreadsheeting needs.
After reading the postings in this thread I get the impression that KWord is a good word processor and fairly mature and that it's good enough to fulfill most peoples word processing requirements. My impression of KSpread is that it's well on its way but still has a few serious shortcomings (like navigating cells with the tab & arrow keys).
To sum up, if the intended audience of Kent's reviews are people like me, then the reviews aren't comprehensive enough or critical enough to convince me of the quality and 'readiness' of the applications. That said, I still liked what I saw and I'll give them a go. :-)
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