Opinions on Crossover Office

Ray2047 · Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 766

Any one out there use Crossover Office? If so your opinions, successes, failures, annoyances please. Hadn't really considered trying it till I saw the price in CnR with Gold membership. Now I'm seriously considering it.

My main problem with Linux right now is using Movie Link.com. It is a site you can rent and DL movies from but you have to have a minimum of Win 2K and be running IE 6. I've managed to get in using Mozilla with forged browser ID but no go getting anything to work. Thought I might play around with Crossover just for the heck of it.

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Hi Ray -

I noticed no one's replied after a month. I'm afraid I don't use CrossOver Office, but you might be interested in the review below, and may also want to trial the time-limited (60 days) beta version available.

Bigger, better CrossOver adds WoW to Linux

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Would-be Windows-on-Linux gamers got a very early Christmas present today, with the release by CodeWeavers of the first public beta of CrossOver 6.0, with support for World of Warcraft and other "steam-based" games such as Half Life 2 and Counterstrike.

CodeWeavers CEO Jeremy White wants to make sure, though, that everyone understands that "this is still beta software, and there are many issues remaining; we still have a ways to go until we feel comfortable considering it ready for release. While we greatly appreciate feedback on this release, if you don't like bleeding edge experimental software, we'd really rather you waited for a proper production version."

CodeWeavers has also released a new public beta of CrossOver Mac. This new version, which enables Intel Mac users to run Windows programs on Mac OS X, includes fixes to Internet Explorer and fixes for many programs that would run but then crash, such as Microsoft Office 2000. It also includes Outlook 2003 fixes and other improvements.

For business Linux users, CrossOver Linux 6.0.0beta2 includes support for Outlook 2003, Flash Player 9, Visio 2003, and Microsoft Project 2003. The Version 6 beta also includes major improvement in the core of Wine since version 5 of CrossOver.

CodeWeavers - Beta Center

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Welcome Beta Testers!

We are currently providing free, time-limited, public beta versions of CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Linux.

Note that the only support for this software is through these beta centers; please do not submit tickets for beta releases via the ticket system.

Also note that the Beta releases should be treated as highly experimental software. Please do not install them into production environments.

Ray2047 · Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 766

I've found that for some things I want to do my major stumbling block is that (legal) Linux software can't handle DRM. It's interesting that even though I have paid for the movies because of DRM that enforces the rental they won't play on Linux.

Sure there are programs of questionable legality to strip the DRM but really it's time somebody at Linux got on the ball and made a player to handle movies with Digital Management Restrictions.