On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You've only pointed me to a proprietary app that runs Office. You still haven't pointed me to a link that claims *Wine* can too.
No, Crossover is a commercial version of Wine that is focused on ensuring Office runs.
The problem with Wine is that regressions are very very common, and newer doesn't always equal better. The Wine developers not only have to reproduce Windows' API functionality, but they also have to reproduce its bugs. It's not surprising for a newer release of Wine to break apps that worked just fine in the previous release. That seems to be what happened with Office 2000... if you look back to the 0.9.5x reports, you'll see that people were getting it to work quite well.
In theory, the 1.0 release of Wine marks a stable release branch that you can follow which will not have this problem. But until Office 2000 support can make its way back into the stable release branch without breaking other applications, you're going to be outta luck.
So suck it up and buy Crossover. You'll be able to do your work and will be supporting Wine in the process. It's not like you have an aversion to proprietary software, or you wouldn't be trying to run Office in the first place.
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