On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:29:39 -0800, civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > >Codeweavers crossover office 1.1 is what you need. www.codeweavers.com > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Udo Rader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:38 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [expert] IE & wine > > > > > >hi list, > > > >for various reasons I need (please note: "need", not "want" ...) to have > >a running IE5.x (or IE6.x) running on my lm 8.2 box. > > > >lacking a windows license it is no option for me to use vmware/win4lin, > >so I decided to give wine a try ... > > > >has anybody got any experience with wine under LM8.2 in general (I > >installed the snapshot from the club-members downloads-page) and with > >installing & running IE on it? > > > >any suggestions are welcome! > > > >thanks > > > >udo > > > Well, crossover office _might_ work but no guarantees. Office and IE > cdo not use standard Windows Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) > of which there are about 60,000. Microsoft used their special knowledge > of the system to make their applications more competitive by talking > directly to the windows kernel(s).
Don't you mean more _anti-competitive_ ? :) > The result is that security on > Windows systems goes from fair (at least on NT-based systems like NT4 > W2K and XP) to abysmal when you start using M$ apps, cause those apps > provide superhighways into the kernel in privileged mode. Which is why the worst thing you can do with an MS operating system is to run MS apps on it... > Anyway, codeweavers did a great job on Office, but there may well be no > way at this time to run IE on a linux system. According to their press release (http://www.codeweavers.com/about/press_releases/?id=20020611), CodeWeavers is now officially supporting both Outlook and IE in CrossOver Office 1.1.0. > Opera can claim to be IE > and often that is good enough. Mozilla, Galeon and Konqueror can do this as well. > Civileme -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Recently I bought Office XP. It was quite unpleasant feeling giving so much money for so buggy product. ... Solution: Uninstall Office XP and Windows." -- Georgi Guninski, security expert, http://www.guninski.com, 2001-07-12
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