Crossover Office
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CrossOver Office is a commercial program developed by CodeWeavers that allows many Windows-based applications to run on Linux using a compatibility layer.
The program is a snapshot of the public Wine source tree with various compatibility patches added, and more user-friendly configuration tools. CodeWeavers employs several Wine developers and contributes code back to the free software/open source software Wine project as per the GNU LGPL — however, CrossOver Office itself is proprietary software.
The program aims to integrate properly with GNOME and KDE so that applications will run seamlessly in the Linux environment. Actively-supported applications include Microsoft Office 2003, XP, 2000 and 97, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia Flash MX, Adobe Photoshop, Lotus Notes, and Quicken. It also supports web browser plugins such as QuickTime and Windows Media Player. A [full list] is available from CodeWeavers' website.
In June 2005, CodeWeavers announced a new Apple Mac OS X version of CrossOver Office called CrossOver Mac that will support Windows-to-Mac application porting on Intel-based Macs. It will ship in late July or early August 2006 [link].
See also
- QEMU
- Comparison of virtual machines
- VMware
- Parallels Workstation
- Microsoft Virtual PC
- FreeOsZoo for ready-to-launch OSes disk images
- Benchmark (computing)
- Open Colinux
- QVM86
External links
- redirect
- [CrossOver Office home page]
- [press release regarding Windows-to-Mac porting and CrossOver Office on Mac]
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