[cw-discuss] Crossover Games?

[Robert Shearman]

Chuck Harris wrote:
> I wonder if I am the only one that wishes you would stop
> spending time on games, and put the effort on office type
> applications?  Perhaps getting IE6 to work under windows 2000?
>
> Trying to be everything to everyone only results in disappointment.
>   

Chuck,

I just wanted to clear up one assumption that some people (although not 
necessarily you) may have made: it isn't the case that the whole company 
has shifted to working on games all of a sudden. What has actually 
happened is that we've hired more people (including a full time DirectX 
developer) to work on games whilst  others continue to work on 
office-type applications. For example, I've been working on Office 
2003/2007 bugs continuously for some time now. Of course CodeWeavers' 
management and marketing people are spending time preparing for the 
release, but IMHO it's good for them to do some real work instead of 
pushing emails around and doodling on pieces of paper ;-)

I also wanted to address your specific point of wanting IE6 to work in 
win2000 mode. This works fairly well in CrossOver 6.1/6.2 as a 
dependency of other applications (it can be used for displaying HTML in 
applications like Outlook and Quicken), but we don't create an icon for 
it. This is because IE6 in win2000 mode doesn't install all the DLLs it 
requires, because it assumes the OS already has them, which results in 
some web sites and features not working properly. Since IE6 worked fine 
in win98 mode, we didn't consider fixing these issues a big priority. 
However, it seems as though there is demand for installing IE6 as an 
application (rather than a dependency) in win2000 mode for some use 
cases that we didn't expect, warts and all, so we may have to reconsider 
decision to not create an icon for it in 7.0 or later versions of CrossOver.

Thanks,

-- 
Rob Shearman