For today and today only Codeweavers, the company behind the Crossover software, which allows Windows apps like MS Office, Photoshop and various games to run in Linux and Mac OS X, is giving away the £25 package to download for free. The package available for download is the latest 11.3 version. For those who do […]
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Hi everyone. This is a very quick screenshot post of how to install Microsoft Office 2010 in Ubuntu using PlayOnLinux. I have used the latest version of PlayOnLinux (4.0.16) running on a Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 ( updated 24th March) 64bit machine. The screenshots speak for themselves. Please post comments if you have any further
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Codeweavers, the principal sponsor of the Wine project, released the commercial version of Wine, Crossover XI. Starting from this release, all previous offerings of Crossover; Pro, Standard, Bundle and Games will be bundled in one product. Apart from this change in product portfolio, Codeweaver XI brings in a big feature, support for MS Office 2010.
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Ubuntu developers seem to be working hard to make the Ubuntu experience with Unity as smooth as possible. After yesterday’s update to my Ubuntu 12.04 daily alpha build, I noticed that my Microsoft Office applications installed via Crossover 10, are being correctly recognized on the Unity launcher and also the Unity dash. It came as
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Recently I downloaded the latest trial version of Codeweavers Crossover 10 after getting seriously frustrated with Wine. The recent updates of wine broke my MS Office installation so many times that I nearly went back to Windows !! Moreover, I was so tired of Evolution not working with MS Exchange and all those organisations who refuse
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Winetricks is a very handy and useful application for installing a lot of windows applications on Linux systems. It is available in the Ubuntu wine ppa . Recent editions of the winetricks application allows you to install MSOFFICE 2007 and 2003 very easily. It creates a separate wineprefix for the MSOffice and makes installation a
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If you were an avid Tweetdeck user in Linux and you are worried about its future as Adobe pulled the plug on AIR development for Linux, dont be worried! You have two solutions at hand. 1. Use AIR using wine. Adobe AIR has been reported to run on wine and so you can install Tweetdeck
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I had been trying to remote control my friend’s pcs for a long time after I started using ubuntu but all my attempts went in vain while trying to use vnc viewer. somehow i am still unable to connect to other vnc clients in either windows or ubuntu over the internet. I know it can
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