Codeweavers Crossover Office Professional Version 8.0 Beta 5
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Codeweavers Crossover Office Professional Version 8.0 Beta 5

As a Codeweavers beta tester, I tested the previous preview for the following products: . Windows Media Player V9. Internet Explorer v7. Microsoft Office XP (borrowed for testing). My PC is currently running Ubuntu Linux V9.04 (64-bit).

IE7 and MS Office installed without any problems and, as far as I could tell, also ran all the features without any problems. WMP installed successfully, but there were a number of runtime issues, including script errors. Some features worked a few times, but personally I wouldn’t use them. Also, it is necessary to install WMP first before trying IE7. This is because WMP insists on installing IE6 and if IE7 is already present, the installation fails. Why is that beyond me? The fact that my PC is 64-bit may influence the result. Installing the above three products created the correct menu entries (which also worked…) but they weren’t very good at creating desktop icons; what looked like actually worked, but the representative icon was just the default text one – not pretty.

That’s not too hard to solve though, just remove the installed ones, then open:-

“Windows Application/Software”, find the ones you want, right-click the menu item and select “Add this launcher to the desktop” and you’re good to go.

Since then a new version of crossover office has appeared (release candidate 7) and I will try it soon. Overall though, I think Codeweavers has made great strides with this product and if one needs to run some Windows software on a Linux platform I can really recommend a try. Please note that Codeweavers offers a free trial. Of course, not all Windows software will run with it, but a lot of them do just that. YMMV.

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