A few months ago, I complained on this very blog about the support I was receiving from Codeweavers, the makers of CrossOver Office. The owner of the company, Jeremy White, responded in a comment on this blog, and apologized & explained what had happened. That took guts on the part of Jeremy, and my respect for him & his company went way up after that. I kept on using CrossOver, and I've been happy that I did. Now there's a new version out of CrossOver - version 5 - and it's the best one yet. There's a ton of bugs fixed, and some new apps supported, but the thing I've noticed the most is that it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay faster than version 4 was. Much much much much faster. Really, guys - if you have to run Windows apps under Linux, CrossOver is the cheapest, easiest, best way to do it. The price (only $40!) is entirely reasonable, and there are no stupid DRM or activation requirements. Do these guys right, & get CrossOver Office.

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