Filed under: Macworld, Software
Crossover Mac to ship this week
Reader Greg Taylor advises that Codeweavers' WINE-based Win32 application runtime Crossover is due for release during Macworld. The release version should be downloadable for registered users sometime this week.It remains to be seen how well Crossover will do up against more traditional virtualization approaches like Parallels and VMWare. It's true that Crossover lets you run Windows apps without the overhead (or licensing cost) of Windows, with varying degrees of compatibility; but with Parallels' new Coherence mode allowing mix-and-match Windows applications 'floating' in the Mac UI, and enough RAM, it may not be an easy sell.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
u2v said 4:05AM on 1-09-2007
If you are not too fuzzy about the legality of your Windows copy Parallels is a good option. If you want to have everything nice and legal it will add $200,- to your Parallels bill. Then Crossover starts to look good.
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Brian said 9:10AM on 1-09-2007
Oh come on...you can pick up a copy of XP for next to nothing on the gray market. Sub $100, and it's a legal license. For right now, Parallels' coherence mode pretty much takes the biscuit for me.
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Michael said 10:01AM on 1-09-2007
This is GREAT news for web developers. I'm sooo happy that I finally was able to check out my sites running on my laptop localhost with WinIE without having to publish them to a remote server first. That isn't possible when running IE from within a virtual machine such as Parallels.
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