CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 6 for Mac and Linux

jeremy_white writes "I'm happy to announce that we've shipped version 6.0 of CrossOver, for both the Mac and Linux. We have a full changelog available; highlights are are Outlook 2003 and support for games, notably World of Warcraft and Steam based games. I can attest that World of Warcrac...er craft is the most well tested application we have ever supported. It's exciting to watch the Wine project progress — it's a great and growing community of developers (which is a good thing, as we're now all too busy grinding Honor in Alterac Valley to keep up our pace of contributions :-/)."

Re:And *STILL* no QuickBooks Support

[Night Goat]

That's a good point. If you're using Quickbooks, you're going to be spending a lot of time, maybe even the majority of your time, in Quickbooks. And at that point, who cares what the OS is. You're not dealing with it except as a foundation. Not to mention that you'd lose any support from Intuit by running on Linux. The day you need support from them, you're going to be happy you have it.

(Intuit's support department blows, by the way. I'm not endorsing it. I have gone through hell every time I have had to call them.)

Re:And *STILL* no QuickBooks Support

[curious.corn]

No way. All software providers explicitly deny any responsibility for damages deriving from the use of their product. Ever read an EULA? Why would you trust running your business on native windows (at most you could claim a refund for the OS license) and prentend liability from a third party?

The problem...

[DragonWriter]

There's no known issues, because no one runs it.

If no one runs it, how can anyone know that it doesn't run?

I'm not trolling -- I actually paid the $39 a couple of years back when it looked like they were making progress. QB runs, but not well -- lots of little graphic glitches and refresh issues that make me nervous when I'm entering financial data...

But if you did run it and experienced these issues, why are there no known issues? Is it possible that maybe you didn't report the issues, and are complaining because no one has addressed the unreported issues?

Clearly, the problem isn't just no one trying to run it that is why there are no reported issues, its that the people who do run it—people like you—don't report their issues in order to get them addressed.

One reason that games probably get more attention is because people are more willing to experiment with games. Which means, issues get reported and, therefore, can be fixed.

So, I have tried. Can I bitch now?

But it doesn't seem to me that you have tried what the GP said you should try, specifically: "If you want to run QuickBooks under Crossover, try it. If it has a problem, then tell them about it."

If you had, it would either (1) you would have no problems, and not be complaining here, or (2) there would be reported issues.

Re:iTunes support

[Laur]

They are aware of this and specifically mention it in their "truth in advertising" section: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/truth _in_advertising/the_real_dirt/ [codeweavers.com]

"What sort of works:
iTunes 4 will install and run, but you are prohibited by Apple from using it with the iTunes store, which severely constrains its usefulness. We hope to support a newer version of iTunes in a future release of CrossOver."

Pssst - VMWare + Quickbooks is better

[Bitsy Boffin]

I ran QB (Pro 2003) under CrossOver for some time, but it's finicky to get it installed there was a certain order to follow and some registry entries to add in manually as I recall. It had a couple of display issues (the buttons at the top of invoices sometimes got partially hidden for example), and sometimes wouldn't start up, you'd have to try several times, but on the whole it worked well-enough to use, and I did so for about 2 years.

But now I run QB under a VMWare virtual machine which I specifically created (and trimmed down) for Quickbooks and Quickbooks alone. And it has a couple of pretty good advantages...

1. Easy to backup your entire accounting environment, just write the VM to a DVD every now and then. That way if something goes bang, grab the last backup DVD, download the last backup QB data from your offsite, and you are literally running again with the exact same environment in seconds.

2. Can be run on multiple machines. Quickbooks as you know needs to be activated over the internet when you install it, which means that you can't realy install on multiple machines (say your desktop and laptop), with this setup that's no issue, copy the VM to the other machine, fire up the free VMWare Player, and away you go, as far as QB knows it's running on the exact same system.

Sure, the main disadvantage is that it takes more space because of the windows install in the VM, but really in this day and age who cares if it takes another 300 meg.