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CrossOver 12.1.1 has been released by CodeWeavers

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:20:36 +0000

CodeWeavers recently released CrossOver 12.1.1 for Linux and Mac. This update has allot of new features as well as bug fixes.

About CodeWeavers Founded in 1996 as a general software consultancy, CodeWeavers focuses on the development of Wine –the core technology found in all of its CrossOver products. The company’s goal is to bring expanded market opportunities for Windows software developers by making it easier, faster and more painless to port Windows software to Linux. CodeWeavers is recognized as a leader in open-source Windows porting technology, and maintains development offices in Minnesota, the United Kingdom and elsewhere around the world. The company is privately held. For more information about CodeWeavers, log on to www.codeweavers.com.

You can use ( CxForMe ) as your dealcode in CodeWeavers store you will save 15% off CrossOver for Mac or Linux!

CodeWeavers 30% off Winter Solstice 2012 Sale on CrossOver Mac and Linux

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:59:50 +0000

Save 30% off CrossOver Linux and MAC with Solstice2012 as your dealcode.

While the big box stores and shopping malls run black Friday sales, and in recent years many of the online retailers have began to have black Monday sales. Leave it up to the wacky folks at Codeweavers to have a 30% off Winter Solstice Sales on CrossOver Mac and Linux.

Why a Winter Solstice sale you might ask, well you see CodeWeavers has their headquarters in Minneapolis St. Paul Minnesota and in Minnesota in the winter you measure snow by the feet and temperatures to the negative. So when the Solstice comes on December 21st, the beginning's of longer days and warmth are surly on the way. And this is a time of mass celebration on the magnitude of world cup winners, or your favorite team winning the super bowl. And in all this mass hysteria a thirty percent off sale was devised so everyone around the world can join in this festive time of the year.

This sale runs from now until December 23rd 2012 and to take advantage of it just use "Solstice20102" as your dealcode in CodeWeavers store at checkout.

CodeWeavers Launches CrossOver 12 For Linux And MAC

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 04:31:30 +0000

CODEWEAVERS LAUNCHES CROSSOVER 12
Update includes experimental Mac graphics driver
Internal feud leads to what Marketing Department calls the most boring name ever for a software feature. Marketing weeping tears of bitterness.

SAINT PAUL, Minn (December 12, 2012) — CodeWeavers, Inc., developer of CrossOver software which enables Mac and Linux users to run Windows software on their computers without the need of a Microsoft license, announced today the release of its new software, CrossOver 12.
CodeWeavers, ever aggressive on the software development front, has also included an experimental Mac graphics driver in CrossOver 12. Prosaically named The Mac Driver by the product’s development team after triumphing over Marketing in closely-watched contest of wills, the new driver will lead to smoother, faster, more native Mac performance as it’s perfected.
“Like our previous versions, CrossOver 12 gives everyone the most-affordable solution for accessing to thousands of Windows applications on Mac and Linux, because with our product, you don’t need a Windows license,” said CEO Jeremy White. “Version 12 continues our steady progress in terms of more Windows applications just working under CrossOver. If you haven’t tried CrossOver recently with your favorite Windows application, it’s worth taking the 5 minutes to give it another look.”
“But what’s even cooler,” White continued “is what our new “The Mac Driver” is going to do for our Mac porting customers. Now that we have The Mac Driver, we’ll be able to move Windows applications over to the Mac platform even more rapidly. It will help us deliver a final ported application that looks, smells, and feels more like a native Mac application than ever before.”
“It is actually a really cool feature,” confirmed Jon Parshall, CodeWeavers’ COO and head of Marketing, “But this just goes to show what happens when you let software developers name something. Next thing you know, they’ll want to rename CrossOver ‘That MacWindows Compatibility Program’ for our next release. If you’ll pardon me, I think I need a drink.”

Wine 1.5.19 Released

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:00:00 +0000

The Wine development release 1.5.19 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Performance improvements in the DIB engine.
More fleshed out XML-lite implementation.
Some more C++ runtime functions.
Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

CrossOver 11.3 has been released for Linux and MAC

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 04:37:57 +0000

CodeWeavers today released CrossOver 11.3.0 for Linux and Mac this is a service update with many bug fixes and translation updates. CrossOver lets Linux and Mac computer users run many of today's most popular Windows software without the need to duel boot or the need of a Windows license. The full change log for this release is provided below.

About CodeWeavers
Founded in 1996 as a general software consultancy, CodeWeavers focuses on the development of Wine the core technology found in all of its CrossOver products. The company’s goal is to bring expanded market opportunities for Windows software developers by making it easier, faster and more painless to port Windows software to Linux. CodeWeavers is recognized as a leader in open-source Windows porting technology, and maintains development offices in Minnesota, the United Kingdom and elsewhere around the world. The company is privately held. For more information about CodeWeavers, log on to www.codeweavers.com.

Bordeaux 2.0.10 for Linux Released

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:26:21 +0000

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.10 for Linux today. Bordeaux 2.0.10 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release we have updated winetricks, fixed a bug in the Bordeaux GUI, fixed a bug in the Cellar manager and made other small bug fixes.

We bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.2, Cabextract, DIB Engine, Pulse Audio, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools.

The cost of Bordeaux 2.0.10 is only $4.99 at this time. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.

PlayOnLinux 4.0.14 has been released

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:25:15 +0000

Hi everybody

Sorry for being late, I don't have a lot of free time at the moment. Here's PlayOnLinux 4.0.14 changelog.

Language files updated

Thank you to everybody for helping us to translate PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac If you want to help us to translate the program, you can go to launchpad.

How to install Microsoft Office 2010 on Linux with Wine

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:15:58 +0000

I installed MS Office Professional 2010 on my Ubuntu computers and it's working fluently.

It is a nerve breaking experience for a Linux new bee to work with open-office for documentation works than their favorite MS Office. New interface and new formats of open office makes them reluctant to take it as a first choice. So this post is for those who are tired of rebooting your system to make small changes in the documentations.

Now you don’t want to reboot your system to get windows™ and MS Office™ to work on your documents. You can do it from any Linux distribution with wine.

To help further Wine development please consider purchasing a copy of CrossOver from CodeWeavers.

Wineskin 2.5.4 Released

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:39:39 +0000

Wineskin 2.5.4 update is out! You can get it in Wineskin Winery or use the normal Manual download option on the Downloads Page.

I'll work on getting the Manual and FAQ updated.

The list of stuff!

Alexandre Julliard Wineconf 2011 keynote

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:47:13 +0000

Jon Parshall the COO at CodeWeavers posted a video of Alexandre Julliard's Wineconf 2011 keynote. Alexandre Julliard, is the Maintainer of the Wine Project, in his keynote he describes the current state of Wine, and what's in the works for upcoming Wine 1.4 release.