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CrossOver Office 5 and Wine 0.9 Released
Jeremy White writes "I am happy to report that we have shipped version
5 of CrossOver Office. The most user visible changes are support for Office 2003 and
'bottles'
which lets you deploy Windows applications more easily than ever.
But under the hood, this release includes all of the major work that went into the 0.9 release of Wine, which
also shipped today and is now officially in Beta."
From the linked article:
heh - how many qualifications can you have in one sentence?
Seriously - thanks to the codeweavers guys (for contributing to wine) and especially to the wine/winelib projects for offering an upgrade path that doesn't mean cutting windows from your system in one step.
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I would rather see important apps ported to Linux. If there is so much demand for Wine/Crossover, then surely there is demand for the apps natively on linux? Ask your vendors where they are.
What I'd like to see in Wine is a version that uses GTK for painting, so that Wine apps would integrate nicely with GTK apps. Right now, Wine apps look like something the cat dragged in. As I understand it, work is underway to implement Windows themeing, but that is not what I's like to see, since it still wouldn't make Wine apps look like other X apps. Oh well. Maybe someone will implement a Windows theme that uses GTK for performing drawing operations, that should at least improve the situation a bit.
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Actually I can understand not wanting to bear the cost of two lines of developement. I wouldnt mind if they simply came out and officially said they would support users trying to run under wine.
Outlook 2003, as in contrast to Outlook Express, is actually decent software. Don't mix both up.
I think they were saying not that it won't run, but that it runs better in the native environment.
:)
Presumably, this is a problem neither you nor I have run into.
It's only an insult if it's not true.
Yes, please call Microsoft and see what they say.
I think Wine is a Good Thing, and I think porting FLOSS applications to Windows is a Good Thing. Both approaches provide a conduit for gradual transition away from proprietary operating systems, and that is a Good Thing.
Of course, developing true cross-platform applications is the best, but that's not always so easy with regard to legacy applications.
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I think this is exactly what is happenig here.
In previous releases the basic architecture was in a very fluid state. The "beta" stage is meant to tell you that the developers consider the basic infrastructure is in place, and that they want your help to find out the quirks and to polish the details.
"Ask your vendors where they are."
Done that.
Answer 1: Bought off by Microsoft; there used to be Wordperfect and Coreldraw for Linux. Where are they now? Microsoft "invested" $50 million in Corel and dropped Photodraw 2 (a great product and a real threat to CorelDraw), for which Corel sold off Corel Linux and dropped all Linux development efforts. ($50 million? just chump change to Microsoft.)
Answer 2: Not answering up; IBM, an alleged supporter of Open Source Software, has consistantly failed to answer calls to either port their Lotus SmartSuite package to Linux, or to pony up to pay for OpenOffice.org import filters for the SmartSuite apps.