“CrossOver Office for Intel Macs has hit alpha 1, and has been made availible for limited public testing. It comes as a standard OS X package, and, while it requires X11, it appears that CodeWeavers is working to eliminate this dependency,” sHARD reports for OSx86 Project. “After installation, users simply click on a Windows .exe file to launch it. CrossOver Office has a sort of start menu which resembles it’s Windows counterpart, allowing users to easily launch installed Windows software. Reportedly, CrossOver Office will also support the creation of a Macintosh application wrapper of sorts. This allows for Windows programs to appear in your standard Applications window.”
sHARD reports, “Cut and paste sharing, as well as Windows applications on the dock, appear to work. While this software is still alpha and obviously experiences it’s share of crashes and kernel panics, this strong feature list is very promising.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: CodeWeavers’ stated mission is to make operating systems like Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems. By doing so, CodeWeavers provides a bridge to help users migrate from the Windows software world to these other worlds. CodeWeavers does this primarily by making it possible to use Windows software on Linux and Mac OS X.
CodeWeavers is the leading corporate backer of the Wine Project. Wine is an open source software initiative that is systematically re-implementing the Win32 API under Unix. Wine makes it possible for Linux PCs to run Windows application as if natively.
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oo, exciting stuff
and beginning to work with half life two
In the eternal words of Christopher Walken,
WOWWEEEWWOW!
The only thing worse than running Windows on my Mac is running Windows apps on my Mac.
Gaaahhh, my eyes!! It burns!!!
I wonder if it will support AutoCad.
I see in a happy and distant future that all that will be left of Windows is its API’s.
I can live with that.
i heard autodesk were considering an intel autocad, what strengthens this is the aquisition of maya that has an osx team.
“CrossOver Office for Intel-based Apple Macs hits Alpha .”
That sounds serious. Someone should check for casualties.
why do all the MDN summaries read like a ‘happy fun ball’ commercial? “if happy fun ball glows red, quickly drop and call 911”.
“if happy fun ball glows red, quickly drop and call 911”.
WTF? What does that even mean? Is that Librium talking?
Wow.
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O/T: From our favorite tech pundit on Dell choosing Google software over Microsith:
“Good News for Microsoft?
Though the news may appear to be a blow to Microsoft, Rob Enderle, analyst with the Enderle Group, said it actually could serve the company well in the near term as it continues to battle antitrust charges in the European Union.
“Initially this works in Microsoft’s favor, because they’re trying to showcase that there is no lock-in on the desktop,” he said. “Right now, a couple of the big [hardware] guys going with Google is a good thing.”
However, the PC desktop is increasingly becoming a battleground for companies such as Google, Yahoo, and eBay that want to drive PC users to their Internet-based services to earn ad revenue, Enderle said. “Microsoft will have to respond” as competition for that visibility grows, he said.”
MW: sense
Happy Fun Ball
Neck Tornado
Froonga
Silly Knife Ball
Dam Sled
FireHats
Volty the Electric Bath Duck
Tiny Tot Underwater Car
And my Favorite – Hammer Gun
To Hubbell Hubris: Nice list! We need a Non-Sequitur Internet Ring!
Mind if I add a few?
No? Thanks!
Hot Dogs and Diapers
Cowboys with Explosive Jeep Cherokees; Need an Orbit
Molly Ringwald’s Toe Fungus
Walnut Razors Dance Like Chaucer and Famke Wept
Ample Inuit
Tank Shake My Protozoa
Tenzing Norgay And Dr. Seuss
Who Invited Solomon Blackwell?
Google is your friend.
SNL might be a clue.
I tried to help, without giving away “Koolaid’s” reference.
Lighten up friend, go have another vat of wine.
but will running windows apps as if natively mean running windows viruses and malware as if natively?
Hubbell:
You forgot “‘Johnny Human Torch’. Oily rags and lighter included.” LOL
Ampar: you are obviously pop culturally illiterate.
i need to run IE to run microsoft crm 3.0 on the mac… thanks codeweavers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Ampar: you are obviously pop culturally illiterate.”
I’m not so sure that’s a bad thing.
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now we know what the statement about Microsoft developing a Mac version of Office until 2009 means. Not, as some dumb PC writer who will remain nameless speculates, because of Apple abondoning the Mac OS. Nice try, how’d that work out for you?
Thorin: I was thinking the same thing!
Johnny Human Torch and Johnny Space Commander were from different times.
Oh, and had some of us bothered to Google — they would have discovered ‘Froonga’ was the first friggin’ hit.
Had you read that reference, then you too could have joined-in on the silly fun. But, I see that you’d rather be a humor snob, and only laugh at your own ‘jokes’.
[CrossOver Office for Intel-based Apple Macs hits Alpha .]
Ampar: That sounds serious. Someone should check for casualties.
This isn’t ‘obvious’ to everyone, and you’d certainly have to know the ‘reference’ in order to find it amusing.
Whatever.
Hubbell Hubris:
I had intention on being a snob earlier. Just silly. My apologies. Combo of a bad day and too much sarcasm. I should have used Google. Thanks for the feedback.
You live, you learn. . . well, you live.
Sarcasm can be good, hence the ‘vat of wine’ jab — ask Basil.
Absurdity is good too. Makes people giggle more. Or jiggle, whichever.
Gonna split before I get all Sammy Maudlin on you.
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Cheers
And FWIW, I’d rather see folks hijack a less than dull thread with wit — or a reasonable facsimile of it — than with yet another boring, yet hopelessly agonizing, religious or political diatribe.
Basil Fawlty or Basil Rathbone?