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Crossover Office 2.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the for-those-who-need-it dept.

freakyfreak2 writes "Crossover Office 2.0.0 was just released. Finally can get Office XP apps to run. Here's from the announcement. "The changes in this release are as follows: Support was added for Photoshop 7, Access 2000, Word XP, Excel XP, and Powerpoint XP. glibc 2.3 issues were fixed. The setup GUI was dramatically improved. Tablet support for Photoshop was added. File locking and file change notification support were added. Scripts were added so that the technically inclined can have Windows applications open specific file types using Unix applications, for instance, opening PDF fies with the Unix Acrobat Reader. Many other cleanups and bug fixes were made. " Here's the homepage and here's the change log. I'm still waiting on getting Dreamweaver MX to run."

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  1. What's with the links? by Entropy_ah · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They are freskmeat.net links but they just redirect to codeweavers actual site.

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    OSDN is keeping track of our clicking habits
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  2. Re:Excellent. by Tet · · Score: 4, Interesting
    kinda related to the Wine/Foxpro thing :)

    Only vaguely, in as much as it's WINE related. Crossover produce a very good product though, and I'd love to see them succeed. Also, unlike TransGaming, they contribute all their changes back into the main WINE tree, thus earning them huge kudos as good citizens of the open source community.

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  3. Re:Or... by rsheridan6 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    A few weeks ago I had to make a 2 AM trip to Kinkos and pay $5 to print out a .doc file created by someone else. That sort of thing should be a good enough reason. OpenOffice still doesn't handle a lot of .doc files.

    I saw a project once (can't find it now or remember the name of it) which was a script that goes on a Windows server.. you email it a doc file and it automatically converts it to some other format using MS Word and sends it back to you. Since that would obviously handle any .doc, it would sure be nice if someone would set up a publically accessible server that does that.

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  4. Re:You know... by phoneboy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Three reasons I disagree with thsi:

    1. Less security issues. Provided I set up cxoffice/Wine correctly, any "damage" a rogue Windows app might do can be contained very easily. At worst, it will affect the "Windows" stuff, but it won't affect the Linux data. While I occasionally need Outlook to perform some tasks, I usually use native mail readers, so the risk of "some virus" or "some rogue piece of code" coming in is very minimal.

    2. Apps that will never have a Linux equivelant. One application I currently rely on for work has effectively been discontinued as a result of M&As, so the chance of seeing a Linux equivelant is zero squared. However, with a little coaxing, it runs just beautifully under cxoffice.

    3. Choice. Because I can run my critical business apps under an alternate OS, I am now no longer "locked" into a particular OS choice. I frequently switch between my Linux box and my Win2k box and I can do most of my basic work tasks in either platform.

    -- PhoneBoy

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