Re: The "plop" starts now.

Conrad Knauer wrote:
> On 3/27/07, Les Klassen Hamm <les@bitlink.ca> wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking it's time to examine Crossover Office again, as the real
>> showstopper for many of my clients is the Word/Excel prerequisite -
>> which must work seamlessly and without adjustments or changes (OO just
>> isn't considered when the requirement is simply to have what "everyone
>> else has"). I'm thinking that for those who are not mandated to run
>> Outlook, Ubuntu and CrossOver Office may be a real solution.
>>
>> Does anyone have recent Crossover Office experience?
After reading this I checked out CO and decided it was worth supporting.
It does indeed run MSOffice XP, though I didn't get as far as trying to
use the MS web updating site on it to confirm that it also works.

That said, the claim that it will run *Corel* Office is a tad inflated.
Nothing by Corel is 'officially supported' by CO, and the fact that I
have both the Office 12 and Draw 10 packages working is notably
compromised by the fact that the several patch files for each of these
*do not* work (oh, they run all right -- but then the patched
application doesn't). So far, after least a week, the CO help desk folks
haven't provided any response to my query about this problem.
Received on Sat Apr 14 15:14:58 2007