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CrossOver 6 Announced

[Posted January 10, 2007 by cook]

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.


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World of Warcraft

Posted Jan 11, 2007 13:13 UTC (Thu) by rankincj (guest, #4865) [Link]

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?

CrossOver 6 Announced

Posted Jan 11, 2007 14:21 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

really, this is one great example of a project-company symbiose which
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.

wine is progressing great lately. more games are working, MS office &
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...

this allows ppl to use linux even tough they NEED win stuff, crucial to
many to finally make the switch.

Been using CX since "Plugin" came out.

Posted Jan 16, 2007 19:14 UTC (Tue) by rknize (guest, #6917) [Link]

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.

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.


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