[Am-info] Announcing CrossOver Office

[Sujal Shah]

On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 14:19, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> Announcing CrossOver Office, new Support system  (Jeremy White,  Wed Mar 27
> 04:58:09 2002)
> 

Just a follow on:

	I bought and paid for their other product, CrossOver Plugin, which
allows one to use netscape browser plugins written for the Windows OSes
in Linux with Mozilla.  I may have written to the list about this at the
time, but it's one of the nicest things to finally be able to see
Quicktime movies (using the Sorenson codec, which isn't available for
linux) on my Linux boxes.

If this product is anything like the quality of the crossover plugin,
then this will be an excellent choice if you're running Linux but can't
get away from Word (like me at work).

I'm checking to see if my office will pay for the product, since we've
already paid for the Office license.  I'll post if people are interested
in the results.

On a related note, my quest for a non-Word Mac OS X word processor that
makes me happy is still a failure.  I miss the silly outline feature in
Word too much to use anything else, and the other choices I've found
aren't much different than Appleworks to justify the cost (even 20 or 30
dollars).  I may just spring for Word, except that the $369.95 price tag
is a bit steep....  considering the full Office suite is only $100
more...

Sujal

> I am very excited to announce the next product in our
> CrossOver family of products - CrossOver Office.
> 
> CrossOver Office will make it possible to install and use
> popular Windows applications as easily as CrossOver Plugin
> has made it to use Windows plugins, all without a Microsoft
> Windows Operating System license.
> 
> Version 1.0 of CrossOver Office will support Microsoft Office 97,
> Microsoft Office 2000, and Lotus Notes.  We hope to rapidly
> expand our support throughout the year.
> 
> We have also made a major change in the way we deliver support
> to our customers, in the hope that we can serve you better.
> 
> Specifically, we have built a completely new support
> infrastructure which means that each customer support
> email is assigned a ticket, and is tracked through our system.
> 
> We also are providing a new support web page,
>      http://support.codeweavers.com
> which provides you with a place to search the support
> archives and check up on the status of your requests.
> 
> The new support system, if you sign in
> (which is optional),  allows us to provide you
> with some further features.
> 
> First, we can now automatically remail you a full installation download,
> which we hope will come in handy when you've lost yours or when we
> have a version upgrade.
> 
> Second, and we hope importantly, we are offering a special discounted
> price to all of our current CrossOver Plugin customers - you
> can buy CrossOver Office for $39.95 instead of $54.95, if you go
> through the download section of the new support web site.
> 
> Once again, I want to thank all of you.  Working with our customers
> has been the greatest pleasure we have had these past 9 months.
> 
> Please let us know if you have any problems or concerns.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeremy
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> Fred A. Miller
> Systems Administrator
> Cornell Univ. Press Services
> fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
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