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Crossover Mac

I used to use Crossover Office on Linux many years ago, to allow me to meet corporate requirements to use Microsoft Office and still use my operating system of choice at the time. So I was quite intrigued and amused to hear the recent announcement of Crossover Mac, which might provide a more lightweight alternative to running Parallels or rebooting via Bootcamp whenever I need to use Windows software.

The only application I actually use these days on Windows is Quickbooks, so I thought I'd give it a go. It never worked too well with Crossover on Linux, and it's not supported by Crossover. Unsurprisingly it didn't work, but still I was amused to see the Internet Explorer install wizard running on a Mac desktop...

Assuming Crossover Mac works well with Office, then Apple machines truly are becoming one of the most flexible platforms to work on.