CrossOver 6 Announced
| From: | Jeremy White <jwhite-AT-codeweavers.com> | |
| To: | announce-AT-crossover.codeweavers.com | |
| Subject: | [CodeWeavers-Announce] Announcing Final versions of CrossOver 6 for both Mac OS X and Linux | |
| Date: | Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:21:47 -0600 |
Hi Folks, I am very happy to announce that we have shipped final versions of CrossOver Mac 6.0 and CrossOver Linux 6.0. Users of Intel based Mac systems can now seamlessly run many Windows applications on their Mac without needing a Windows license. Supported applications include Outlook, Visio, Project, Quicken, Steam based games such as Half Life 2, and many more. For Linux users, we have added support for Outlook 2003, World of Warcraft, a range of Steam based games such as Half-Life 2, and a number of other applications. Additionally, CrossOver 6 represents another major step forward in the evolution of Wine, so most users will find substantial improvements in the overall compatibility and behavior of CrossOver as compared to version 5. With the addition of games to our lineup, we felt that 'CrossOver Office' was no longer an appropriate name, so we have also rebranded the Linux product as 'CrossOver Linux'. If you are an existing CrossOver customer with an active support entitlement, you should be able to visit our web site to download this latest version: www.codeweavers.com You will need to log in with the email and username that you used when purchasing CrossOver. Once logged in, you should be able to go to 'My Downloads' to download this release, presuming you are a customer on active support (you can review your purchase history on your account tab as well). If you have questions or need some help, please feel free to drop an email to sales at codeweavers.com, where we'll do our best to help you. We recommend that anyone who is interested in CrossOver first download a trial version and make sure that it works well for you; trials are available front and center on our main web page, at www.codeweavers.com. We are looking forward to 2007, as we plan to release a range of improvements to CrossOver, particularly as we get our Mac 'sea legs' underneath ourselves. This will include refinements to many of our supported applications, and will also hopefully included expanded support for many other applications, notably games. We appreciate the support of everyone that has helped us throughout the beta process. We are grateful that we have the opportunity to contribute so much to the Wine project; it is only your support that allows us to do so. Cheers, Jeremy White CEO CodeWeavers, Inc. _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce@crossover.codeweavers.com http://crossover.codeweavers.com/mailman/listinfo/announce
Posted Jan 11, 2007 13:13 UTC (Thu)
by rankincj (guest, #4865)
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Posted Jan 11, 2007 14:21 UTC (Thu)
by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164)
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wine is progressing great lately. more games are working, MS office &
this allows ppl to use linux even tough they NEED win stuff, crucial to
Posted Jan 16, 2007 19:14 UTC (Tue)
by rknize (guest, #6917)
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I use native Linux apps for everything that I possibly can, but some software is just not up-to-snuff. Quicken and now recently a couple of games are my primary uses at home. I have to use MS Office 2003 for work. There are also a couple of websites that I have to use that are broken in anything but IE. I've been slowly weaning off of my use of VMWare to handle these things as CO has matured.
I run World of Warcraft using native Wine 0.9.28 and Mesa 6.5.2 with my Radeon 9200, and it plays almost flawlessly in OpenGL mode already. (The mini-map turns blank within buildings, and I need to disable a couple of OpenGL extensions, but that's about it.) Does CrossOver also run Warcraft in OpenGL mode, or does it offer better DirectX emulation than native Wine?World of Warcraft
really, this is one great example of a project-company symbiose which CrossOver 6 Announced
seems to work out. crossover offers the guarantee certain apps will work,
while everybody can go get the latest wine release or even cvs to get a
more up-to-date but not-guaranteed-to-work piece of software.
friends work - really good. solved my girlfriends trouble with OO.o
(school and other students demand PERFECT MS office format compatibility,
only available from MS-office-on-wine in linux). and having Internet
explorer on linux can be a lifesaver as well, tough i use it only twice a
year...
many to finally make the switch.
I've been using CrossOver for many years now. It still has some rough edges, but it gets better all the time. This is one of the few projects that I am willing to pay money for, as it is just so darn useful. It's a nice example of an open source project progressing in the direction of what the (paying) users are asking for, instead of what the developers feel like doing. Users that are unable/unwilling to contribute code can contribute money instead and see real results.Been using CX since "Plugin" came out.