Its interface is equal parts ingenious and awkward. Heck, we couldn't even get it to install IE7 without it falling over, and that was listed in its small selection of supported apps.Ĭrossover is flaky. We hope CodeWeavers is thankful to the open source advocates who put Wine together in the first place.īut throughout running Crossover we were aware that we weren't getting the full Windows experience. It's logically fantastic, and the OS agnostic ethos behind it is flawless. We're not suggesting that Crossover's sharp emulation of Windows' components isn't a remarkable achievement.
Whatever you might do with Crossover can be done just as well with something else. You might as well use a service like IE Netrender to test your pages, while Flip4Mac is a much more elegant way to add WMV compatibility to OS X. But alternatives to these things already exist.
