“As I expected, I had mixed success with my experiments using Crossover: bridging software that allows some Windows applications to run on Macs with Intel processors. Crossover has an installers menu which lists several applications that are known to work and I opted to start with Internet Explorer 6, so beloved of banks in Thailand. The last version of IE for the Mac was 5,” Graham K. Rogers reports for eXtensions.
“The software automatically downloaded the necessary components, including the licencing agreement. At the end (and I loved this bit) it simulated a Windows reboot,” Rogers reports.
Rogers reports, “I must admit it felt odd to double-click that ‘e’ icon and open Explorer 6 on a Mac; but there it was, alive and kicking along with Outlook, Windows Media Player, Notepad and a couple of extras.”
Full article here.
CrossOver Mac 6.0: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/
I am so ready to use this or Parallels so I can have a decent version of Quicken.
Quicken for Mac is slowly killing me dead, mostly….
Crossover is a piece of shit. The worse product I ever bought
I wish Parallels would ship “a patch” to Desktop that allows Linux to function properly again. The original handled Windoze and Linux wonderfully. The new patches run Linux poorly. I lost 16 hours this week trying to install a fresh copy of Linux into the latest version of Parallels…what a nightmare. Back to using my box version.
I wrote their help desk and told them that life isn’t only about being Windoze compatible. Hopefully they listened.
Just my $0.02
I wish that Crossover would live up to its marketing and its potential.
To run Windows apps and games without Windows would be a Godsend for us all.
“Quicken for Mac is slowly killing me dead, mostly….”
:o)
Eran says that Quicken for OS X is “super fast”, “great”, and “mind boggling”. How dare you imply otherwise.
Quicken on Mac is great. What are you talkin about?
Parallels is a great program. I use it a lot. It’s kind of vertigo to have the start menu and the dock there at the same time……
Quicken?!?!
work belongs on a PC.
j/k
FYI: The Chairman of the board at Intuit is also an Apple Board member.
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2006/08/quickenuniversal/index.php
How can their mac offerings be so poor?
I use Quickbooks on a Mac–no problem. Though, my business’ needs are straightforward.
I am really looking forward to use Internet Explorer under Mac OS X.
And Outlook, now with free spam.
um. eww.
Quicken on Mac is a steaming POS. M$FT Money on Winblows is far better. Ooh, that was painful to say.
Come to think of it, Codeweavers Crossover is all crap in the sense that it doesn’t live up to their marketing hype.
You guys are all F**** Up.
It looks cool and everything but I don’t want any Microsoft POS on my Mac. Not even inside a VM.
Quicken for Mac SUCKS. The only people who think it’s good software have obviously have never used Quicken for Doze ( which is completely different from the Mac version) or M$ Money, as I did for 10 years.
Both of those are so far superior to Q for M that Quicken should be absolutely embarressed to put out such a shitty product.
No, you’re f***** up, Aquiles, because they don’t want to be inside you either!
Wow, I go out of state to work for a coupla hours……..
I used Quicken for Windows from ’95 til ’06, when I got my Mac, which had Quicken preinstalled. Nice, I thought, until I tried to get the info switched. What a pain, it should have been easier.
Then, I started to notice little annoyances. Intuit has the best program for Mac if you want the auto-download feature from your bank (if they even offer it for a Mac) but it is still not up to par with the Windows version.
It NEVER reconciles my checking correctly automatically, I have to do it manually. Oh well.
I have a direct deposit and the same amount goes to savings every check. I allow Quicken to enter this info directly from the bank, and yet even my savings, which is a constant deposit amount, is never reconciled correctly, I have to do it manually. Oh, well.
I agree, if you have never used the Windows version, it is impressive, and I don’t need all of the features (I never even set up the stock tracking or the 401k records on my Mac).
Also, the auto fill doesn’t go to the correct area. If you are making a deposit, you would think it would go to the deposit column….no, it goes to the payment column first. WTF?
When I pay a bill from the scheduled transactions list, you would think it would remove it or show that payment has been made and change the due date to the next month…NO, you have to do that manually. No big deal.
None of these are deal breakers, but it is not as smooth as the other version. Maybe if the ever make a univesral version, they will start over from scratch.
At least this year, TurboTax didn’t hang up when it tried to update before online filing like last year. I finally gave up and printed it for mailing. No big whoop. I survived.
some more info
http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/mac-personal-finance-software-disappointment/
MW:choice………?
Wow. I just got that d/led last night…wierd.
The ONLY program I need from Doze is Front Page 2003. I don’t want to rebuild all of my sites (5). I tried to edit the sites in dreamweaver but they basically need to be completly rebuilt. I d/led this last night and it works (slowly) and does everything but publish.
I guess I need to buy a compy of Doze or find some free time to rebuild my 5 sites.
Crossover is kind of pricey b/c some of the programs don’t run completely smoothly on it.
@Frisby
If you’ve got time, certainly try to rebuild your websites. Then you’ll be free of M$ forever and everyone else will be able to read your pages with browsers other than IE. (I’m assuming Frontpage in IE centric).
FrontPage is the spawn of Satan. And it has died but reproduced. Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Expression Web are its demon children.
This product name makes me think of Carol Anne Freeling every time.
@ frisby
Try the demo of Freeway Pro and see if it will work for you. I have heard that it outputs much better html than Front Page, though I can’t say from person experience.
TMF
Makes me think of ‘Crossing Over’ with that guy who’s runnin’ for president.
Maybe if he wins he can have Carol on his staff, and talk to dead guys like Nixon did….
Will wrote:
“Crossover is a piece of sh*t. The worse product I ever bought”
why on earth did you buy it? Their trial period is more than generous enough to see if it works for you before you have to pay. And if it does work, it’s great.
That being said, if you already have a licensed copy of Windows, Parallels is a more flexible solution.