[TriLUG] Crossover Office runs Office2K very well.

[karl thiele]

They are working on Office XP, which I imagine will be the last Office 
product that will be capable of being handled by wine. Just a hunch but 
M$ is not going to like even this level of functionality on a non-M$ OS.

Chris, good try, cacheing is fast, but this is pretty fast for 
standalone install. please do not patronize to those you do not know. I 
was just trying to be helpful. Enjoy working On M$, I am fortunate to 
work on linux at my work.

Vestal, Roy L. wrote:

> I have to use Office XP and Outlook 2000. I'm currently using Win4Lin 3.x
> but I would LOVE to goto something like this. I'm all over the site now. Do
> you know of a demo/trialware setup? I have to prove justification before the
> company will buy.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Chen [mailto:crimsun at email.unc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 12:00 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Crossover Office runs Office2K very well.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:55:18PM -0400, karl thiele wrote:
> 
>>The last product I was really impressed with was/is Vmware, In the 
>>company I work for, Office2K is the standard and I have run it via 
>>vmware. But I have tried and bought Crossover Office.I have now used it 
>>for about 10 days and it runs Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage and 
>>OutLook very well, almost perfect. The paper clip does not work, oh 
>>darn! Thier web page is very accurate describing the completeness of the 
>>features. The support/bug list is on line as well as all responces.
>>
> 
> My experience corroborates this report. Although I prefer OpenOffice,
> this is a tremendous step forward for integration.
> 
> 
>>There are also plugin support. windows media works.... QuickTime...
>>
> 
> Works quite well, I use these on my personal workstation.
> 
> 
>>I do not often get excited about a product, but it has been wonderful so 
>>far. It is also faster than W2K, Excel starts up in about 5 seconds. 
>>Cost is $59 for Crossover Office and $29 for pulgin support. Yes this is 
>>built on wine, best I have seen, I have not run wine for over 2 years 
>>because I ran Vmware, but I have not run vmware now since I bought 
>>crossover.
>>
> 
> Codeweavers and Transgaming have added tremendously to the WINE project.
> I'm looking forward to their integrating the additions into the original
> source tree.
> 
>