[ale] [Fwd: Announcing CrossOver Office]

[Josh Freeman]

If I already have VMWare, is this worth it? I've got VMWare 2.0.4, and
this would be cheaper than the upgrade to VMWare 3. . . 

> 
> In case people are considering this, I've been using it for a couple of days 
> now, running Microsoft Office 2000.  I was actually quite hesitant to do 
> this (bad experiences with the conceptually similar WordPerfect 2000 for 
> Linux suite have made me leery of WINE for large applications ;-), but so 
> far it's been much smoother than I expected.  The only glitches I've noticed 
> are that the internal help in each program refuses to start.  Other than 
> that, I've only had it die once in two solid days of working in Word under 
> it, which is about the track record I experience with Word running on 
> Windows XP....
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
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