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Codeweavers' CrossOver Plugin Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the win-what-was-that dept.

Grok writes: "CodeWeavers' CrossOver Plugin allows Linux users to use software and browser plugins that where once only avaliable on Windows. Version 1.0 was released in late August 2001 to much media furvor, while the release of version 1.1 arrived without much fanfare. Despite the lack of attention by the news media, the new version of CrossOver is a more exciting release than the orginal. The reason? Microsoft Media Player Support. Finally, every major plugin on the internet, along with several obscure ones, are now supported under Linux. (Full Story)"

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  1. fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. Re:Where Microsoft gets in trouble... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But Windows Media Player is free!

    Free as in I didn't pay for it!

  3. uncommented slashdot article! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i just found the motherlode here!
    Gold!

  4. Re:And I thought /. spelling was bad! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are these people really as dumb as they sound?
    No. They're just too dependant on the built in spell/grammar checker (a.k.a compiler).

  5. Re:Nice, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Have you taken a serious look at quicktime? The quality kicks ass, even at low bandwidths.

  6. Re:And I thought /. spelling was bad! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Comments from the site. Please note the fine reputation slashdot has:

    UnRegistered Lamer:daniel
    spelling? - (Wednesday March 20th, 2002 7:22 AM)
    what about running a spellchecker on the article before posting it?

    scary.

    UnRegistered Lamer:x
    ...grammar checker too - (Wednesday March 20th, 2002 8:13 AM)
    Yeah, a grammar checker would help also. Do any free Linux word processing tools have a grammer checker? No matter the answer... there's no excuse. I *cringe* at the writings of Slashdot editors... let's not spread the misconception that none of us can spell or write proper grammar. That is still important even if you're not getting paid for this.

    "that where once only available for Windows". "Where", which means "location", is not interchangable with "were", which is past tense for is/was.

    Otherwise, great article.

    UnRegistered Lamer:linguaphile
    Shoddy work - (Wednesday March 20th, 2002 8:21 AM)
    Good grief! When I see spelling and gramatical errors this thick I can only wonder what sort of shoddy job is done on the organization's code. "I'm just not a very good speller." is absolutely no excuse when there are tools available that would correct 90% of these errors. Dyslexia is one thing (transposition of letters and such), but this is either stupidity or laziness and I don't really think it's the former.

    UnRegistered Lamer:Thomas
    Oh, darn spelling errors - (Wednesday March 20th, 2002 8:43 AM)
    This is a quite an interesting and informative article. I'm thankful the author has spent the time writing it down. I assume he had other things to do than spell check his stuff -- that's fine with me.

    Has any one of you complainers run the text through a spell/grammar checker and sent the improved version to the author? No? Oops.

    Anyway, here's your money back.