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Codeweavers Releases Crossover Office

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-it-all-together-now dept.

rleyton writes "Codeweavers have just announced Crossover Office, a Wine derivitive which allows MS-Office 97 & 2000 products as well as Lotus Notes to run without a Windows OS License. If it's as cool as the Crossover plugin product, then it could mean a significant step forward in Wine's progress." NewsForge got hold of a final beta copy a couple of days ago and has a Crossover Office review up already, and DesktopLinux.com has one too. This looks pretty cool, yes. Now if a PHB tells you can't run Linux, because you need Office - tell him you'll save money by not needing a Windows license, and call still use Office.

3 of 296 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Except.. by HeUnique · · Score: 5, Informative

    ALL the wine modifications which were introduced with crossover plugin were submitted back to the wine tree

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    Hetz (Heunique)
  2. Re:So let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Codeweavers offers volume licensing. The price drops below $50 when you purchase 25 or more licenses, which would be the case for a large company converting to Linux.

    There are also the other advantages (security, stability) over Windows that Linux offers.

  3. Re:Post Useful Reviews please by HeUnique · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hi, I was a tester...

    Fonts problems - due to Apple patents, the fonts hintings are off - a simple workaround would be to recompile freetype with fonts hinting on (read the README.UNX inside the freetype package), and copying it to the cxoffice/lib. This should give you same look as in windows.

    Access - is pretty problematic right now - its slow. Wait for 1.0.1 (or you can buy crossover office today and get the free upgrade) for the fixes.

    Macros/VBA stuff - works perfectly.

    Clipboard - you'll need to install an old DLL (mfc42.dll) to the cxoffice/support/dotwine/fake_windows/Windows/ directory and then it will run (will be fixed in 1.0.1).

    Excel tables, embedding - works.

    ODBC connection - cannot test due to Access running problems (read my first part).

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    Hetz (Heunique)