On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Chinmay Nadkarni wrote: > I was wondering whether what does Crossover (specifically Crossover for > Office) add to wine, in other words what do I get when I buy Crossover > that I will not get if I just get Wine.
Support for MS Office binaries under Wine. > Also, what have people's experience been with Crossover for Office, > running Word and Excel (the office components I'm most likely to use). I'm a proud OpenOffice user, so I wouldn't know. I've had very good results from the Crossover Plugin, though; it does a great job of supporting multimedia plugins under Linux. > As an aside, I surely would'nt mind paying for Crossover, and it would > definately be my moneys worth if it could run Office infallibly. Read their web site. They are very honest about what works and what doesn't. They have a whole section devoted to things that don't work right, and they tell you right up front. If you want "perfect," then dual-boot Windows. Everything else involves a trade-off. That's a truism in life, as well as in software. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
