“Among the announcements of interest at this week’s LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco is the debut of the alpha version of CodeWeaver’s CrossOver 6.0, which further extends the Wine Project into a service and support model,” Dana Gardner blogs for ZDNet.
Gardner explains, “Wine Project is a clean-room-like ‘re-implementation’ of a Win32 API for running Windows applications on Linux natively.”
“But perhaps the most promising new development for accelerating the demand for Wine-type activities (to spur the adoption necessary to gain critical mass-level interest from commercial software deployments) comes from the burgeoning installed base of Mac OS X-on-Intel PCs,” Gardner explains. “Wine Project and CodeWeavers are moving quickly, so says Jeremy White, CEO and founder of CodeWeavers, to bring Wine benefits to Mac OS X/Intel. If this were to pass muster, Boot Camp and Parallels may have a worthy alternative, a native, non-emulation, and low-cost way of running Win32 apps on Mac OS X on x86 with no need for a Windows license.”
Full article here.
More and FAQ for Codeweavers’ CrossOver Mac: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/
Related MacDailyNews articles:
CrossOver Mac runs Windows apps without Microsoft Windows on Apple Macs – July 24, 2006
CrossOver Mac allows Mac users to run Windows apps without Microsoft Windows – July 03, 2006
Running Windows programs on Apple Mac without Windows – June 30, 2006
CodeWeavers to help bring Windows applications to Intel-based Apple Macs – June 23, 2005
did they all get together so that wwdc and this conference could be held one after the other in san francisco?
Now we’re talk’in…
When we see this actually come to market it will surely be the beginning of the end, or at least the nominalizing, of Windows OS.
wow it runs all the programmes that are available for mac, brilliant
Kind of limited. I’ll take Parallels. Hands down the better option.
I hope they can support QuickBooks and UPS WorldShip software… that’s the only thing I need the junky Dull in the office for…
Saving up for an Intel-Mac Mini to replace it with.
Would be nice not to fuss with windoze xp…
How is this “limited”? Why is this not the better option?Really, I don’t know much about Codeweaver and would appreciate knowing its limits.
Thanks!
Hey Codeweaver-I beleive we can make it through the ni-hite.
Hey, Jake-These codes (I beleive) are PER software, so probably the most popular software will be done first.
I believe believe is believe, not beleive.
Jake: Not every Windoze app is compatible with Wine/CrossOver.
Jake, just read the list of supported programs. Very limited in it’s use. Parallels with a copy of windows will run just about any program that you want to use. Don’t use windows for surfing or e-mail and forget about viruses.
$59.95! WTF!
Wonder how much of the product is based on the toiling of open source minions?
I don’t see any applications it offers that aren’t available natively on the Mac. Why would you need this?
$59.95 for this is a waste of money at this time. 90% of the apps mentioned on their very short compatibility list (only 52) already have OS X native versions available anyway. This is definitely no threat to Parallels and/or Boot Camp in any way whatsoever.
It’s useful if you already have bought PC software for your PC but want to throw it on your new Mac without needing to buy a Mac version on top of it.
This is transitionary software to ween people over from Windows to MAc without feeding the MS money pit by needing a Windows license.
Get it?
It says it run Microsoft Project, that’s not available on the mac.
CrossOver supports Apple iTunes????? Can someone pleeeeease explain why iTunes needs to be supported?
“CrossOver supports Apple iTunes????? Can someone pleeeeease explain why iTunes needs to be supported?”
Are you really all that stupid? This is LINUX software that’s being ported over to OSX. The list of applications it supports therefore is aimed at LINUX people, who don’t have a native version of Word or iTunes to install instead.
That’s why the list of Applications page doesn’t mention Crossover Mac, just Crossover Office. The software that is relevant to Mac users will grow now an OSX version is in development.
This IS important news. One day it will come to pass that OSX will be installed on every Win box out there, barring, Enderle, Thurrott and Balmer and a few crazed fans. And when that happens there will be no more Windows as its apps will run just fine, and over time be converted to OSX binaries.
It’s the beginning of the beginning of the end for Windows. A momentary chapter in computing…
‘The Other Steve’ said: “It says it run Microsoft Project, that’s not available on the mac.”
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or
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