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CrossOver Office 2.0 released

[Posted April 24, 2003 by corbet]

CodeWeavers has announced the release of CrossOver Office 2.0. This version allows Linux systems to run applications like Office XP, Photoshop 7, Access, and others - without Windows. Language support has also been improved.

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Posted Apr 24, 2003 14:14 UTC (Thu) by simlo (subscriber, #10866) [Link]

I tried to install their free trial. It did work when I fixed my bad harddisk, but I had to break the law and install dcom95 which requires me to have a valid Windows 95 license.

What is the point when you have to have a windows license anyway?

CrossOver Office 2.0 released

Posted Apr 25, 2003 3:04 UTC (Fri) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link]

What is the point when you have to have a windows license anyway?

I think the point is that you can just boot into Linux and do all of your work there, instead of having to dual-boot and switch back and forth.

CrossOver Office 2.0 released

Posted Apr 25, 2003 11:47 UTC (Fri) by ctg (subscriber, #3459) [Link]

Not every app requires dcom95.

I my copies of Office 97, and also Acrobat Reader 5.1 under crossover.

If you want IE5 or 6 then that requires dcom95. But then, so does IE, unless it came bundled with office....

CrossOver Office 2.0 released

Posted Apr 25, 2003 19:57 UTC (Fri) by jdell_nv (guest, #9705) [Link]

I just installed CrossOver Office 2.0 on RedHat 9 and was able to install Office 2000 and IE5. It did install DCOM95 (without asking me), but I don't have a license for Windows, nor did it ask for one.

Everything is working great!