On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:29, civileme wrote:
> Well, crossover office _might_ work but no guarantees.  Office and IE 
> cdo not use standard Windows Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) 
> of which there are about 60,000.  Microsoft used their special knowledge 
> of the system to make their applications more competitive by talking 
> directly to the windows kernel(s).  The result is that security on 
> Windows systems goes from fair (at least on NT-based systems like NT4 
> W2K and XP) to abysmal when you start using M$ apps, cause those apps 
> provide superhighways into the kernel in privileged mode.

Actually, with the newest version of Crossover Office (just released the
other day) IE 5 is now an officially supported program. And of course
Office works under Crossover Office.

Vince


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