CrossOver
Some months back, I attended an Apple seminar where someone mentioned an application (not Bootcamp or Parallels) that would allow Macs to run Windows applications. Several of you jumped all over me and called me a liar. Check the dates on the following articles:
Jun
11
CrossOver - Would you like some Wine with your Windows apps?
About a month or so ago, I attended an Apple briefing on Microsoft interoperability using the new Intel Macs. It was a lot of fairly familiar ground, with Boot Camp and Parallels, but they also introduced a new product, still in alpha testing, from CodeWeavers called CrossOver that got me really excited because it was showing Windows applications running directly in an X11 window using Wine. Wine has been around on Linux and other Unix boxes for a while, and has been worked on by the Darwine Project folks for a while now, but CrossOver is the first really polished looking Wine solution that I’ve yet seen for OS X.
MOSCONE CENTER / BOOTH 563, SAN FRANCISCO - (August 9, 2005) - CodeWeavers, Inc., the leading Windows-to-Linux software developer, today announced its development and product roadmap for CrossOver Office, CodeWeavers' software that enables Windows applications to run natively on Linux, at LinuxWorld Expo 2005 in San Francisco. With the debut of Version 5.0 next month and Version 6.0 later this year, CodeWeavers will enable increasing numbers of popular Windows applications, including games, utilities, and the most critical workplace applications, to operate cleanly on Linux desktops.
In addition, due to Apple Computer's recent announcement that it will be moving to Intel x86 chips for its Macintosh PC products next year, CodeWeavers looks forward to making CrossOver Office available for Windows-to-Mac application porting in 2006.
MacWorld June 30, 2006
CrossOver lets Windows apps run on OS X, sans Windows
Jun
11
CrossOver - Would you like some Wine with your Windows apps?
About a month or so ago, I attended an Apple briefing on Microsoft interoperability using the new Intel Macs. It was a lot of fairly familiar ground, with Boot Camp and Parallels, but they also introduced a new product, still in alpha testing, from CodeWeavers called CrossOver that got me really excited because it was showing Windows applications running directly in an X11 window using Wine. Wine has been around on Linux and other Unix boxes for a while, and has been worked on by the Darwine Project folks for a while now, but CrossOver is the first really polished looking Wine solution that I’ve yet seen for OS X.
MOSCONE CENTER / BOOTH 563, SAN FRANCISCO - (August 9, 2005) - CodeWeavers, Inc., the leading Windows-to-Linux software developer, today announced its development and product roadmap for CrossOver Office, CodeWeavers' software that enables Windows applications to run natively on Linux, at LinuxWorld Expo 2005 in San Francisco. With the debut of Version 5.0 next month and Version 6.0 later this year, CodeWeavers will enable increasing numbers of popular Windows applications, including games, utilities, and the most critical workplace applications, to operate cleanly on Linux desktops.
In addition, due to Apple Computer's recent announcement that it will be moving to Intel x86 chips for its Macintosh PC products next year, CodeWeavers looks forward to making CrossOver Office available for Windows-to-Mac application porting in 2006.
MacWorld June 30, 2006
CrossOver lets Windows apps run on OS X, sans Windows
Comments
Some months back, I attended an Apple seminar where someone mentioned an application (not Bootcamp or Parallels) that would allow Macs to run Windows applications. Several of you jumped all over me and called me a liar.
People (not me I should add) called you a liar because you suggested it wasn't WINE/Crossover, which it turns out it was and which we all knew about. You suggested the ability to run all/most Windows software inside OS X, which Crossover is not capable of. It has really low compatibility. You also suggested it was Apple that was working on it, which they weren't.
Wine has been around on Linux and other Unix boxes for a while, and has been worked on by the Darwine Project folks for a while now, but CrossOver is the first really polished looking Wine solution that I?ve yet seen for OS X.
Crossover has been on Linux for a while too and it only looks polished because WINE is a turd. Guess what that makes Crossover.
I hope that Crossover really becomes a useful product but it is currently far from it.
Crossover has been on Linux for a while too and it only looks polished because WINE is a turd. Guess what that makes Crossover.
I hope that Crossover really becomes a useful product but it is currently far from it.
I did not suggest anything. I repeated what I and others heard at that seminar. I did not hear the word WINE. I assumed, since an Apple representative told about it, that it was Apple's app.
I assumed, since an Apple representative told about it, that it was Apple's app.
Exactly. That's what people jumped on you for. People were trying to explain that it was highly unlikely that Apple themselves were working on the technology.
Parallels >>>>>>>> CrossOver.