[cw-discuss] Crossover Games?

[William Bagwell]

On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Jeremy White wrote:
>snips
> Take Microsoft Office, for example.  We built our product line around
> support for MS Office.  Early incarnations of CrossOver essentially did
> nothing but Microsoft Office.  But on the Mac, it's largely unneeded.  So
> half of our market doesn't need it.  And on Linux, interest in MS Office
> has been waning, year over year.  OpenOffice is getting better, and there
> are enough alternatives that it isn't as compelling.  And, thanks to our
> work, free Wine runs MS Office increasingly well, so folks don't need to
> buy CrossOver to run it.  So if we focused
> on nothing but Microsoft Office, we'd be out of business right now.

Intersting points... One possible niche to consider. As good as OpenOffice has 
become in recent years, it still will not run scripts or macros in (for 
example) Excel spreadsheets. Translating them from Visual Basic to something 
else is a royal pain! And pointless, if you ever need to share them back with 
Windows users.

Perhaps this would be easier (or at least possible) to implement with the 
Wine / CXO codebase? I would certainly pay for a plug-in for OpenOffice that 
would fill this gap without requiring buying a copy of Microsoft Office.
-- 
William