I think the “lame duck” free CrossOver office day will do much better then bad for CodeWeavers. I will honestly have to say after a year I’ll re-evaluate wine / codeweaver progression and if codeweaver still outperforms wine as it does now, then I’ll cough up the few bucks and subscribe for another year (not to mention I am sure they’ll have another Major release around December to try to get the people that are “on the edge” after the lame duck download.

Ok.. so today I got my email with my registration code and went ahead and download and installed it. I then installed Office / IE6 (which I previously had run in Wine) and i’d be damned. The performance was way better, wineserver wouldn’t hang on occassion (this is a problem I had with wine running IE6), some little issues that wine had with ie6 (the look of the address bar etc) aren’t in codeweavers cross over office, Microsoft Word / Excel work faster, and better not to mention the 2007 Compatability pack was simple to install.

So props to the codeweaver developers, the wine developers (since this is really what it’s based off of), and the lame duck free day (again, a damn great ploy as they will at least get another 50 – 100 customers I am sure).

This is a great movement that I think will show that opensource companies can actually make a profit.

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