It may sound weird, but running Windows on a Mac has become a worldwide sport.
You may already know (don’t you?) about Apple’s Boot Camp and Parallels, until now the only two way to get a ‘Start’-based OS into your Mac.
Enter Wine, a quite old solution, well known to most Linux users, to have just a few Windows apps running under Mac OS X.
[…] Though the move to Intel has already opened up Windows options for Mac users, the planned release of CrossOver Office highlights the fact that Apple’s systems are becoming far more compatible with the Windows world.
White said CrossOver Office has one big advantage over those other options: Using it doesn’t require the purchase of a copy of Windows. However, it also has significant downsides. Its focus is on application compatibility, not device drivers, so things like printers don’t work with the Windows applications.
CrossOver Office
Also, Wine is a compatibility layer, not a true emulator, so it works with only some Windows programs. (“Wine” used to stand for “Wine is not an emulator”–a mind-bending nonacronym along the lines of the GNU Project’s “Gnu’s not Unix.”) Developers at CodeWeavers and others on the open-source Wine effort have to work on each program they want to make compatible.
“That’s why it is so hard, and why not so many applications work,” White said. […]
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