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CrossOver Office 5 and Wine 0.9 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gotta-keep-'em-emulated dept.

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."

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  1. Officially Beta by Jekler · · Score: 0, Troll

    Meh, I have a very sour taste in my mouth from the time where "beta" has started to mean "release version". I dislike how things "officially" go to beta... then they officially enter the "beta 2" stage. Then release candidate 1, 2... then preview release... It's just a shame that every damn stage of development warrants an announcement and celebration, as opposed to opening the champagne when you actually hit production. That and the fact that every application has a few hundred version numbers. If AOL did nothing else right, I at least like their 1.0, 2.0, 3.0... versioning

    Of course developers should celebrate internally on their progress. But along this path and there will be an announcement everytime we change a line of code.

    "Hey everyone, my app has just entered pre-pre-pre-alpha! That is to say, I finished typing the include lines!"

    I like that OSS makes so much progress, but I think it would be a benefit to us if they, publicly, treated it like any other application.