[Am-info] Announcing CrossOver Office

[Felmon Davis]

On Wednesday 27 March 2002 02:44 pm, Sujal Shah wrote:

>[...]
> I'm not sure if you fully understood the nature of CrossOver
> Office... it's not a word processing suite.  It's a specially
> packaged version of WINE that is geared towards running Office
> itself.  So, translation isn't an issue.  You're running
> Word/Excel/PPT itself, just via WINE in Linux.
>
> Let me know if I misunderstood your message.
>
> Sujal

pick your brains for a second? does installing require a 'dual-boot' 
set-up or can you install the Office stuff under wine?

I was intending to buy their multimedia plug-in, thanks for the 
endorsement.

I do hope the near-future, however, will force some open standards on 
MS and render this kind of work-around obsolete.

F.