On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:56 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's not like VMWare where today's VMWare will run tomorrow's OSes. > Today's CrossOver may or may not run tomorrow's applications, so you > occasionally need a new copy of it. >
Today's Crossover is a frontend to Wine, and today's Wine doesn't run a lot of yesterday's applications. Stuff that depends on XP SP2 is mostly broken. Look for IE7 for example. Since VMWare will completely emulate a machine and you can install the whole OS, it's a much cleaner scenario, but in some cases (direct hardware access being the first one) it complicates things, like gaming. But then comes the problem of licensing. Although I'm still not sure about the whole Wine thing, since it's mostly based on reverse-engineering of the Windows thingies...
