OK from the horses mouth. I can absolutely assure you that Windows users will gain as much from this as Linux and Mac users.
Our goal, and what we're building right now is ONE single cross-platform version of Xara, so that when we add new features, it will appear on all three platforms. Indeed when any external developer adds any new feature to the Xara maintained open-source version, then all platform versions will benefit from this.
This is all part of our plan to take over the world :-) We need fully operational, fully compatible versions on Mac, Windows and Linux so that users can choose any platform they like and be sure that files can be transferred and the software will operate the same (or as close as we can make it) on all three platforms.
But there has to be a slight pause while we do this porting work, of which we're about half way done now. But once done, and assuming it goes to plan (all looking very good so far), then not only will our user-base increase dramatically, but users will get complete platform choice and we expect that product development will increase significantly.
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