Steven Druker wrote:
Susan, thanks for your continued research. It's giving me a good grasp of reality.
On that note, will it be possible to run the various MS Office 2003 apps. on the Mac with Crossover, or will there be so many snags that it makes more sense to buy the Office product designed for Mac? This is a question for all of you.
Actually, this is a user question. As an avid supporter of the Mac Darwine builds, I would state that running Office 2008 for the Mac would be better (it is a native application). HOWEVER, there is NO Access program that ships for the Mac (at least as far as I know) so if you require this program, you will have to take a step backwards and use Office 2003.
As to support for various Windows programs, you have to test most of them yourself as functionality between the Linux and Mac releases of Wine may vary.
Also, as a side note, I am working on Mike Kronenberg's Darwine builds on my Intel Mac. Darwine does not fully function on the Power PC and it appears that the project is currently abandonware.
As to the functionality of various Office 2003 programs with Crossover for the Mac, you'll have to ask there and look at their compatibility list. They do things that Wine does not, like support the Aqua native interface (I just got done playing Doom II on it, which did not run on Mike Kronenberg's nor Zach Drayer's Darwine builds.)
James McKenzie