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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The virtualization market for the Mac is hot. Crossover, a WINE link environment for Windows apps on OS X, has just released their Release...
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If only it were free like Wine!!
December 29 2006 at 12:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI 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.
December 29 2006 at 12:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'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.
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.
December 28 2006 at 10:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis 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).
December 28 2006 at 8:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThanks, guys, that's what I meant but it wasn't very clear. I've updated the post.
December 28 2006 at 8:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyas Audun said - it's definitely not free, it's just a trialware
December 28 2006 at 8:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt´s just kinda free.. Its a trialversion expiring in 60 days...
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