CrossOver 16 Launches, Powered By Wine 2.0 & Supports Office 2013

[phoronix]

Phoronix: CrossOver 16 Launches, Powered By Wine 2.0 & Supports Office 2013

CodeWeavers has finally accomplished their four year old mission of supporting Microsoft Office 2013 on Mac and Linux via their Wine-based Crossover software. CrossOver 16 rolls out today with Office 2013 support among other changes...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=CodeWeavers-CrossOver-16

[Passso]

WP Crossover, Office is a "must have" for a lot of Linux professional users.
Seems like Outlook is missing... that is a bad point, but their OWA is now close to perfect on FF and Chrom(iu)m so it is not that important.

Now... MS released the 2016 version of Office... same player shoot again

[FireBurn]

Any one know how well Office 2016 works on Wine?

[sizeofbool]

Are there any differences between using CrossOver and plain WINE?

[chuckula]

I'm using a VM for Office right now (only Word, Excel & the very occasional Powerpoint needed) but if Crossover gets 2013 working nicely in a native setup then I'm happy to turn off the VM.

[Passso]

Any one know how well Office 2016 works on Wine?

fA few weeks ago I could not even get the installer running...

[eydee]

Just in time for no one being left using Office 2013. What about 2016? Nope.

[dragon321]

Just in time for no one being left using Office 2013. What about 2016? Nope.

Why I should buy license to Office 2016 if I have license to Office 2013? 90% peoples don't need new features.

[sheldonl]

Any one know how well Office 2016 works on Wine?

I did install it, IIRC it wasn't much different (in terms of how well it works) than Office 2013.

[sheldonl]

I'm using a VM for Office right now (only Word, Excel & the very occasional Powerpoint needed) but if Crossover gets 2013 working nicely in a native setup then I'm happy to turn off the VM.

I wouldn't go that far. I beta test their releases and for basic functionality it works ok. If you have larger and more complex documents it's still not there yet, I had issues with missing embedded images, pdf export not working, column layouts off, etc.