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Gone are [...] the days that we hopelessly tried to register Microsoft Office 2013. You read that right, people. [On November 2], we successfully registered Microsoft Office 2013 in a CrossOver 16 alpha build. We [can] also:
- Open, create, edit, save, and print Microsoft office documents
- Activate a copy of Microsoft Office 2013 [with a] product key or a 365 subscription
- Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project
"Everyone at CodeWeavers is incredibly excited to see Microsoft Office 2013 installing, registering, and running in CrossOver. After four years of continued development, we are preparing to deliver support for the 2013 versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project in CrossOver 16 (due out later this year). And we hope that our development will continue making strides to include support for Outlook 2013 and Microsoft Office 2016 in the coming months." -- James Ramey, President
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Microsoft Office 2013 is Now Working via CrossOver 16
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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Kunasou on Monday November 07 2016, @02:55PM
An application based on Wine for Linux...
I tried it a few years ago (they sent a promo with 1 year free subscription) and I couldn't see a big difference, some apps didn't even work on it and they ran well on latest wine-staging.
Maybe the situation has improved somehow.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Monday November 07 2016, @03:43PM
Your experience was basically mine when I tried their OSX offering within the last year. Maybe the Linux one is better, but I can't actually figure out what it gets you over Wine other than maybe a little less needing to configure stuff. Maybe.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by linuxrocks123 on Monday November 07 2016, @04:40PM
There are differences. Mainly I think they put in special hacks to get various applications working that can't go in the main WINE source tree because they're horrible hacks. Eventually, of course, they solve the problem correctly and commit it to the main WINE source tree. I've had MS Office 2010 consistently working in a free-promo CrossOver Office even though it wouldn't work correctly with WINE. MS Office 2013 wouldn't work in either last I tried.
They do good work, and buying a subscription supports WINE. I'll probably get one once Office 2013 is officially supported because I sometimes teach a class that uses Office 2013, and not having to go to Windows for that is worth the $50 or whatever it costs for a year subscription.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @06:12PM
An application based on Wine for Linux...
... that you rent
Their pricing page shows the price for using it for 3, 6 and 12 months.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @07:26PM
That's not the price for continuing to use it; that's the price for a subscription to updates. Once your subscription expires, you're free to continue using the final version your subscription let you download indefinitely. You just won't get updates.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @08:49AM
Based on my experience with regular wine, once you have a version that works, you want to stick with that one anyway.