Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 30, 2007 07:05 AM
"CrossOver or WINE just don't make sense. They are always too far behind with spotty application support to be relied upon."
Crossover specializes in supporting a few applications well. People buy it because they want to launch Photoshop 7 by clicking on a desktop icon, and don't want to have to buy windows to do so. It also avoids maintaining and patching another OS, having a huge disk image/partition for Windows, and license/authorization issues.
"Tomorrow, Vista will be released to the retail channel along with an array of Vista applications. Meanwhile, WINE and CrossOver are simulating Windows 98! It's 2007 for Christ's sake and this new version simulates a Windows 98 environment!"
It's not limited to Win98, you can pick which version of Windows is simulated depending on the application. Some older software may not install on a simulated XP, but work under 98, so this is useful. Have a look at the link on 'bottles' in the article.
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Re:It Doesn't Make Sense
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 30, 2007 07:05 AMCrossover specializes in supporting a few applications well. People buy it because they want to launch Photoshop 7 by clicking on a desktop icon, and don't want to have to buy windows to do so.
It also avoids maintaining and patching another OS, having a huge disk image/partition for Windows, and license/authorization issues.
"Tomorrow, Vista will be released to the retail channel along with an array of Vista applications. Meanwhile, WINE and CrossOver are simulating Windows 98! It's 2007 for Christ's sake and this new version simulates a Windows 98 environment!"
It's not limited to Win98, you can pick which version of Windows is simulated depending on the application.
Some older software may not install on a simulated XP, but work under 98, so this is useful. Have a look at the link on 'bottles' in the article.
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