[ale] CrossOver Office VS Win4Lin

[Michael Hirsch]

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 13:31, cfowler wrote:
> CrossOver Office is using Wine.  What are the providing that I will not
> get if I just use the lastest Wine?

Some of their code has not been accepted into WINE yet.  They customize
it to work for Office, even if that makes it less perfect.  So they have
code that may never be part of WINE.  Also, they add a pretty nice
installer, no config files to screw around with and mess up.  I found it
far less painless than using WINE.

And of course, some tech support comes with the purchase.

--Michael

> On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 13:12, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 12:59, cfowler wrote:
> > > I'm evaluating CrossOver Office and Win4Lin.  There are merits to both. 
> > > Currently I'm having problems with ie6setup.exe locating download
> > > sites.  It just seems to hang on searching for download sites.  Which do
> > > you guys think is the best product for the buck?
> > 
> > Win4lin is a more complete solution.  More programs should run under
> > it.  It is also a little more intrusive since it requires kernel
> > patches.
> > 
> > I'm embarrassed to say that I'm now using CrossOver Office to run
> > Outlook and it seems to work well, though I haven't robustly tested it.
> > 
> > --Michael
> > 
> > 
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