CrossOver 7 supports Office 2007, Adobe CS2 and more

Not to be a party pooper, but has anyone read what their "support" of Office 2007, and the other key apps in this announcement is?

It's Bronze, which they describe on their site as:

“Applications that install and run, and accomplish some portion of their fundamental mission. However, bronze applications generally have enough bugs that we recommend that our customers not depend on their functionality.”

I use VMware Fusion to run Outlook 2003 (also a "Bronze" on CrossOver), MS Project, IE7 (does not run under CrossOver), and a bunch of other stuff.

Yeah, ok, Windows isn't free, but having MS Project or MS Outlook crash in the middle of your day is pretty much a non-starter for me. I'd rather pay the $150 for a copy of Windows, and have it "just work" in a VM.

Another alternative to CrossOver is to use VMware's Thinstall/ThinApp. It requires an extra step because now you have to package the application with Thinstall first, but then you can run the app in WINE with possibly better stability. See here for more info: http://www.brianmadden.com/blog/BrianMadden/Thinstall--Wine--Windows-apps-without-Windows

I tried Office 2007, it also failed.

I just tried Crossover for the first time to see if running Photoshop CS is faster than under Parallels. The Adobe CS installation failed. Back to Parallels.

I would be remiss if I didn't point out that Wine is free and already capable of doing Office 2007 and CS2. Not that I don't appreciate CodeWeavers work and contribution to the Wine project, but Google was responsible for getting CS2 working in Wine (they foot the bill as part of their efforts to contribute back to OS projects, since they bundle Wine with the Linux version of Picasa) back in February.

It certainly wins the award for fugliest logo.

I tried it on Paintshop Pro 7 and Winamp....I wasn't really happy with the results. Paintshop wasn't really usable, where as Winamp loaded more or less ok, but didn't seem to have anyway of getting access to network drives which was disappointing.

I don't like that they charge for it... but at leaset they contribute their code back to the Wine project...