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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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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @05:11PM
One reason why is that CrossOver is fairly good at two things: enterprise and upstream.
Many of the businesses I've seen do the Windows-to-Linux (and lesser for the Windows-to-Mac) transition use, or at least evaluate CrossOver, to assist with the transition. The fact they got the latest Office to work may be a signal of what is to come in the enterprise market for Linux adoption.
Another is that CrossOver are pretty good when it comes to upstreaming improvements they make in WINE. One reason for that is that it is much easier to maintain your own fork when it hasn't diverged much from the upstream version. It also helps because the free labor to fix the improvements means that they don't have to pay for it directly. It also provides a legal buffer when it comes to reverse engineering, as it is easier to claim a clean implementation when the parties who did it have bigger walls of separation between them.