![]() I tried Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Windows (which uses PC-centric copy protection) and a preview version of Word 2010 (which requires. Still, most new Windows apps will not work. Accessing these apps is easy: CrossOver puts icons for Windows apps in a folder, a nice touch, and you can even drag them to the dock for easy access. Quicken 2009 never crashed, although parts of the program (such as the start-up screen) have noticeable graphical glitches. Sites rich with ActiveX components, such as, ran quite well. After a few “dry runs” the app finally installed. With CrossOver 8, you can run a Windows-only program like Internet Explorer as you would any other Mac program. Left4Dead actually ran quite smoothly and even worked for a multiplayer co-op match. World of Warcraft ( ) as a popular multiplayer game without a Mac version (yet). Left4Dead. That game in particular is important because it ranks up there with That said, on my MacBook with 2GB of RAM and a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, Office 2007 still crashed to the Desktop at least once per hour.ĬrossOver 8 supports some of the more popular-but still not the very latest-PC games, such as Fortunately, CrossOver 8 has tweaked support for Office 2007 and now runs more reliably and faster, and adds support for features such as inserting clip art. In some other cases, you might need to run a Windows program such as Microsoft Word 2007 because that’s the version dictated by your company. For example, I know of a design agency that still uses Adobe FrameMaker 7 to access an extensive archive of page layout documents. Of course, the real strength of CrossOver 8 is whether it will work for the applications and games you want to run, not any interface issues. So, CrossOver 8 is smarter, but still not smart enough. CodeWeavers has not addressed my chief complaint, which is that the application does not provide any guidance as to whether an application will work at the time of install, and relies instead on an ![]() However, since theĬrossOver 7 ( ) release last year, the new version only adds support for one major, new Windows application (Quicken 2009) and tweaks Office 2007 compatibility. Wine application for running Windows apps and streamlines the install process. CrossOver Mac Pro 8 is a smart application it relies on the open-source
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