CrossOver Products Free Tomorrow the 28th

Posted by on October 27, 2008 Leave a comment (5) Go to comments

As a special promotion tomorrow October 28th only, CodeWeavers will make their CrossOver products for Mac and Linux free, limited to one copy per-customer. This is a great application if you want to run Windows apps on your non-Windows desktop, but don’t want to overhead of an entire Virtual Machine and OS.

With CrossOver you can run a lot of key Windows apps on your Linux machine, or Mac. Here are just a few apps I use the software for:wine-photoshop

  • Office 2003 – When Open Office just can’t read that file
  • Photoshop – What can I say, I am a long time PS user
  • Outlook – Great Exchange support is hard to find, and my work uses Exchange
  • Internet Explorer – For those web sites that “just don’t get it” 
  • World Of Warcraft – Runs great, and every now and then I just gotta scratch the WoW itch!

You can read their official announcement here, along with all the details !

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  • http://www.worthlessgenius.com Benjamin M. Strozykowski

    I have some fundamental questions about the CodeWeavers software. I have to use CS3 products as well as Office 2007 for my current college courses. Will this software allow me to do that?

    I currently have to run VirtualBox just to have access to this stuff, so it would help immensely if I could run it semi-natively.

  • http://whatilikeontheweb.com wirelesspacket

    Chris,

    Thanks for the heads up! JupiterBroadcasting ROCKS!!!

    @wirelesspacket

  • http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com chris

    @Benjamin M. Strozykowski

    I am unsure about those to Apps, I do know that Google has done a bunch of work to get newer versions of Adobe products to work under Codeweavers products.

    So since it is free, give it a spin and let me know how it goes!
    -Chris

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  • http://www.worthlessgenius.com Benjamin M. Strozykowski

    They have “unlocked” builds on their download site right now, since the serial key servers are being smashed by Digg traffic.

    I will try out CS3 tomorrow on my Ubuntu box and let you know how it goes.