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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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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 07 2016, @02:56PM
Apparently it lets you run Windows applications within Mac or Linux. I'm not sure why gewg_ would submit this when he is so interested in countries switching to FLOSS.
I wonder if CrossOver supports phone home functions.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by butthurt on Monday November 07 2016, @03:37PM
The post says "we successfully registered Microsoft Office 2013"; registration is a phone-home function.
Even though Crossover is proprietary software, having the option of running MS Office on Crossover is a bit more freedom than being locked into running MS Office on Windows. Improvements in Crossover are eventually contributed to Wine [winehq.com], which is copyleft.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Pino P on Monday November 07 2016, @04:12PM
In some cases, switching both the operating system and applications at once causes more of a retraining and support headache for IT than switching one at a time.
And some companies must* continue to use a few proprietary applications even after a company-wide switch to GNU/Linux because others with whom they trade require use of specific proprietary software. For example, Amazon offers a tool for sellers using its marketplace platform to pre-validate "Listing Loader" feeds of product offers before uploading them to Marketplace Web Service (MWS). But this tool is implemented as macros in an Excel workbook. Skipping pre-validation is possible, as LibreOffice Calc is still compatible enough with Excel workbooks in "macros off" mode to read out the required column headings as well as the other sheets that contain high-level textual descriptions of field values. But then each submitted feed counts against the seller's daily upload quota on MWS even if it has obvious errors that the server-side validator catches and the client-side pre-validator would have caught.
* Technically, either this or stop trading.
(Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Monday November 07 2016, @05:51PM
I tested it back in like 2004, when they gave away a free sample or demo period or something. At the time I vastly preferred StarOffice 6 and 7 (predecessor to Openoffice and now LibreOffice) so didn't wind up keeping Crossover. But at that time, having a fully functioning Word 2000 app running on my Linux desktop (was probably Xandros back at the time) was really out of this world. Just didn't need to keep it running, so I stuck with StarOffice.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @11:02PM
Pino P got it.
In my Original Submission, [soylentnews.org] I said
mcgrew has said previously that publishers require an actual M$Orifice installation to interact with them and that the slight differences of LibreOffice, et al., are not acceptable.
He has also mentioned his aggravation with Windoze and his desire to use Linux fulltime.
Celestial (4891) recently expressed a similar disappointment/desire. [soylentnews.org]
...plus a mention of Windoze-only apps.
Days ago, RoboLinux was my best suggestion for these folks. (Same page) [soylentnews.org]
So, this was specifically for that bunch.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday November 08 2016, @02:09AM
Fair enough.
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