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Crossover Office 5.0 works with MS Office 2003!!!

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I purchased the student edition of Microsoft Office 2003 back at the beginning of this year. I found that Wine and Crossover Office 4.2 would not run this version of MS Office. So I've been waiting for about ten months for the new version of Crossover Office.

For those who don't already know this, Wine and Crossover Office are products that enable you to run Microsoft platform applications on a Linux machine. Wine is available from winehq.org and Crossover Office is available at codeweavers.com. The two products are created in cooperation with each other in the same way that Sun Microsystems works on it's Star Office product and cooperates with OpenOffice.org. There's another enabler for MS software on Linux made by Transgaming Technology called Cedega. It is available from transgaming.com.

Today I downloaded the 30 day trial version of Crossover Office 5.0 from codeweavers.com. Once I installed it I tried to install Microsoft Office 2003. After one false start where in invoked the wine excutable to install Office, and one false error message during the installation, the software was finally installed.

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Comments (4)

Abe ·
windowsrefund,

Slow down a little. I think your accusations are unfounded and you are going on a rampage that is not justified. If an apology is necessary, it is you who needs to apologize to Lxer's readers. You are jumping the gun my friend and you need to step back and take a deep breath then come back to post in more rational fashion. If that doesn't help, please take a pill or two before you get too much out of line.
dthacker ·
Sorry windowsrefund, I can't agree with you. My users have to work with both the free and paid software worlds. Wine and Crossover are tools that allow them to do that. If you really want to help the revolution, go write some code or docs, instead of ranting about OS "political correctness."
richo123 ·
Yeah I agree with dthacker, write some code. That is much more constructive. One RMS is enough thanks (and he has written a ton of useful open source code so is entitled to mouth off).

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