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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."

6 of 212 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hmm by nother_nix_hacker · · Score: -1, Troll
    I was hoping Outlook 2003 would be among the Office 2003 applications supported
    I think you are the first person I've ever known of who actually wants Outlook!

    Having said that, I have to use Lotus Notes......

  2. Re:And the Hallowe'en Edition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    OH MY GOD you are SO funny! Can I bring you in to show and tell? You are the funniest person I've read in a long time! What a clever clever little slashdotter you are.

    No, really, don't I need to buy tickets to read comedy this biting? What a funny, clever wit you have.

  3. 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.

  4. whatever by marcusss · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm so sick of hearing about WINE. If you want to run windows applications, run Windows. If you want unix app, run freaging unix. This cross platform functionality in my opinion is a waste of time and effort

  5. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Out of curiousity, since you seem to be interested in contributing to the discussion...how much does front-page advertising on Slashdot cost? I've been thinking of trying to get a project of my own advertised, if you could provide a rate that would be quite helpful. Thanks!

  6. Congratulations! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Looks like this will be one Windows whiner that starts wining instead.