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posted by martyb on Monday November 07 2016, @02:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the catching-up-on-APIs dept.

CodeWeavers reports

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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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Pino P on Monday November 07 2016, @04:12PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Monday November 07 2016, @04:12PM (#423563) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Monday November 07 2016, @05:51PM

    by zafiro17 (234) on Monday November 07 2016, @05:51PM (#423637) Homepage

    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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