Crossover for the Mac Beta

CodeWeavers has just released the beta of Crossover for the Mac. What the heck is Crossover for the Mac? It is a WINE environment that allows you to run Windows applications along side OS X applications, without the need for virtualization. This product will be a boon for those folks that only need one Windows application from time to time.

I had a chance to install this on my MacBook Pro (this works on Intel Macs only, folks), and it is obviously still a beta. I was able to install Office 2003, but Outlook refused to connect to my Exchange server, which pretty would be the only reason I would be using Crossover. However, it is still a beta so these things will happen (it also froze up a few times). You can check out more pics of Crossover in action over at Engadget.

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rolo

I Just tried to install msn messenger but I get something like "Your computer doesn't have a pentium processor...".
aMSN is cool but it doesn't support voice...
I guess I'll have to wait a little more to talk to my MSN buddies... =)

September 04 2006 at 1:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Scott Frazer

Outlook 2003 would not connect to my Exchange server under crossover. I'll stick with Parallels for now.

September 02 2006 at 8:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ari

Technically impressive but still not suitable for production use - at least with newer versions of Office. Parallels is a much better option right niw.

September 01 2006 at 9:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stephen Chan

guys, check this out... hehehe... now i have everything...

http://student.dcu.ie/~chans3/screen.jpg

September 01 2006 at 3:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

henrrrik

WINE (which CrossOver Mac is based on) typically runs older software better. Word 2000, for instance, has a "Gold" compatibility rating, while Word XP has a "silver" and Word 2003 has "bronze". Don't hold your breath for good Word 2007 support.

September 01 2006 at 3:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Daniel Murphy

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth

September 01 2006 at 3:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Benedikt Terhechte

@craig:
you can use aMsn on OSX in order to have MSN+Video chat, works fairly well and even supports all those crazy MSN icons everyone and his mom has installed.

http://amsn.sourceforge.net/download.php
http://cmq.qc.ca/4w/amsn/

September 01 2006 at 2:40 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andy

It's actually fairly cool for little simple apps you're used to.

I have a small stack of PC apps that I miss from my switch. Like an MP3 tag cleaner and renamer, a solid FTP client, and a file batch renamer. I got all these to work just perfectly. A real treat because I missed them.

Sadly to say, my favorite PC vector graphics program wouldn't get fooled into installing because it wants IE 5 or later and installing it still didn't fool it. Bummer.

But still valuable.

September 01 2006 at 1:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tim

programs are running pretty well. i installed FF as well as an "unsupported" program that had a GUI so i couldnt move it around. uninstalling doesnt work. it says they are uninstalled but they are still there. their site is down too. too many people downloading im sure.

September 01 2006 at 12:40 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ToeKnee

Craig-
MSN messenger will likely never work, because it's too tied into the Windows OS. That might be true for all current and future "Windows Live" apps.

:( but true.

September 01 2006 at 12:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply