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Release Candidate 2 of CrossOver Mac
The virtualization market for the Mac is hot. Crossover, a WINE link environment for Windows apps on OS X, has just released their Release Candidate 2 for public testing. Release candidates traditionally signal that a product is almost ready for primetime. I haven't had a chance to play around with this release yet, but all it has to do is actually work to be better than my experience with earlier iterations of the beta.
RC 2 introduces support for Quickbook, improvements to the web browser in Quicken 2007 (who knew Quicken had a web browser?) and several other improvements.
The beta of CrossOver Mac is free to use for 60 days, but the final product won't be.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Audun said 2:36AM on 1-15-2007
It´s just kinda free.. Its a trialversion expiring in 60 days...
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running said 8:01PM on 12-28-2006
as Audun said - it's definitely not free, it's just a trialware
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Scott McNulty said 8:04PM on 12-28-2006
Thanks, guys, that's what I meant but it wasn't very clear. I've updated the post.
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Mark 2000 said 8:28PM on 12-28-2006
This thing is a huge waste of time, if you ask me. Most of the stuff people are pledging to function is available on the mac already. Who needs Creative Suite 2 or Office 2004 or even Quicken for goodness sake? We already have them. Make it function with the stuff that isn't available on mac, like MSN messenger with video, or trillian, or any game (half life just barely works).
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Sam Katz said 5:11PM on 12-29-2006
Know thy enemy. Quicken is not full-featured on the Mac; the investment and online integration simply is not the same on the Mac platform. Bringing WINE compatibility will allow Intuit to port these features to the Mac.
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denny said 11:50PM on 12-28-2006
I've had great luck running the betas though I'm only using it to run IE 6 to check websites I'm developing. For my purposes CrossOver is much better than Parallels or Bootcamp. I don't want or need to run Windows XP, just IE 6.
I'll definitely be buying a license.
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Salvador said 12:20AM on 12-29-2006
I wanted this for using websites that only work in IE, but this is USELESS for that, because IE gives errors and crashes with lots of webs that running IE in Windows with Parallels or Fusion work properly.
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Justin Cook said 12:40PM on 12-29-2006
If only it were free like Wine!!
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