On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:14:54AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote:

> I have a "licensed" copy of M$ Office and I might be tempted to make use
> of this for my wife (okay, maybe me too, but only occasionally).

[ re: Crossover Office ]

Not to take anything away from the work that CodeWeavers have
done, but I'm still surprised at the number of people who haven't
heard of Win4Lin.  It runs Windows 9x (95/98/ME) very well, and
there are extremely few hiccups with it.  Compatibility is
extremely high since you're running Windows inside a virtual
machine -- but the VM is _much_ faster than VMware.

Its downsides are (a) no support for Windows 2000, and (b)
basically no DirectX support.  However, if you simply want to run
Office-ish stuff and Windows applications, it's by far the best
thing out there.  It's fast, it's stable, and it just works.

I bought a copy, I'm going to buy another one soon, and I have no
idea how I'd live without it.  www.win4lin.com for details.
They've mentioned that version 4 is going to be released quite
soon, too (within the next few weeks).


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