Submitted by “I am very pleased to announce that we have made
a public beta of our upcoming CrossOver Mac product
available for general download. What we are shipping today is our first beta release of CrossOver Mac. This release will give you a taste of the promise of CrossOver, but should be considered an early test release – we intend to make substantial further improvements before we ship a production version.”
When the final 6.0 version is released CX Mac in theory will run any app or game that currently runs on there Linux version. If you have a Intel Mac and would like better game support just go to the compatibility center http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/toplists/ and vote for DirectX.
Or better yet. DON’T vote for directx.
I think there should be a separate voting/pledge page for CrossOver Mac – I don’t think any Mac user would consider getting support for the Windows version of iTunes a priority as it currently stands:
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/toplists/
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name?app_id=1598
I agree, I will ask Jeremy if there is a way the appdb can be split into Linux/Mac users.
I was wondering, will AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor work on a Mac now through Crossover? My old machine has become dodgy at best, and I’ve grown tired of Windows’ inconsistancies.
Hoping all of you good folks have a wonderful weekend!
– JB
There won’t be any VB support. Looking at Wine, it seems that 2000 and 2002 will run pretty well after you get it installed, but that can be somewhat difficult. Newer versions don’t seem to work at all. I assume Crossover has a similar level of support, although it could be a bit better.
… iTunes, MS Office and Photoshop already run on MacOSX!
No offence but I really don’t think Crossover will fly on Intel Macs, the need just isn’t as big as with Linux since the apps run native (well emulated right now, but you know what I mean).
Yeah, what he said because CX only supports iTunes, MS Office, and Photoshop, I can’t imagine why you would want to use it. Well I need to get back to using MS Access on my new iMac…
You forgot VISIO and Outlook, but my point still stands.
I was being sarcastic.
My second post wasn’t?
Only a subset of MS Office runs on Mac. There are a great many office parts that don’t run on OS X. If they can get those apps working I can see this useful.
Only a subset of MS Office runs on Mac.
MS Off? How rude!
its more intersting to see if it can run old buisness apps (those interna ones made for a specific buisness need) its these apps that stop companies moving away from windows, not the cutting edge ones like photoshop
From my point of view, to be able to run the proper MSN Messenger would make this a killer app for me.
A normal Apple user got the spare money to buy a Windows XP license…
btw. why do you need Windows if you got a BSD kernel with a GUI you can even work with when you’re extremly drunken?
Because Dassault hasn’t had the sense to port CATIA to a real operating system?
EDIT: Okay, fine, it runs on a real OS, in that it supports AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, and Solaris. Everything except Linux and OS X actually. Wtf?
Edited 2006-09-01 00:00
it only matters who pays for the port! Theres probably better product on Linux / OSX so theres no need to port it.
…on a Linux box (sort of) for some of the reasons given above in other posts…
I can see the appeal of running Win apps “natively” I guess, but they are still “not” Mac apps (Mac users will understand this)…
I would prefer running parallels (is that one “r” or two in that word) or bootcamp, the reason being is that you get much closer to 100% compatability for all apps…
I wonder how well this would run some viruses and the such?
Well parallels will give you performance hit and bootcamp is a pain when it comes to sharing data and you have to re-boot every time you want to switch bewteen a windows and a mac app. This should (in theory) allow you to run compatible windows apps at near native speed.
As a web developer, being able to run IE *and just IE* on my Mac for testing purposes is extremely convenient. Parallels is great if you need Windows+a few apps and can afford the RAM usage, but if you just want/need to run a specific app and it is supported, this is great.
I remember there being some theming work being done for Wine a while back. Does anybody know what the state of that is? I think it would really help if the apps at least looked like native apps.
Has Microsoft droped Office for Mac?
No, Mac Office still exists, albeit without Access or Outlook. Outlook could be interesting for me if it has proper drag & drop, etc.
MS’s abandonment of the perfectly good Outlook for Mac just stinks, by the way.
If I could run IE 5, 5.5, 6 and 7 using CrossOver, it would make the Mac about the best browser testing platform around.
With regards to using it as a method of IE testing; based on fairly recent experience under Linux, it didn’t do ActiveX and the fonts were “problematic” (to say the least). I’d expect the fonts issues to be a lot better under OSX, but wouldn’t hold much hope that the Active X stuff will work. As a method of IE testing it’s unlikely to be the complete solution and personally I recommend going down either the VM route or RDP/VNC ing to some dedicated win boxes instead.
No, Microsoft hasn’t dropPed Office for Mac.