![]() By using separate CrossOver bottles for each, running both Word 20 simultaneously on the same machine is safe and easy.ĬrossOver has been completely stable for the past six months of daily use, and no more demanding of attention than any native Mac program. We use Word for Windows on documents ranging from one to hundreds of pages, from simple as pie to world-class complex with graphics, tables, sections, TOCs, links and sophisticated formatting. Getting back home is just as fast and easy. I use Mac’s Mission Control to dedicate an entire desktop to CrossOver, reducing the transition from any Mac program to Word 2007 or 2010 to a flick of three fingers and less than a second. CrossOver can save its files within its bottle or directly in the Mac’s Finder environment, where they can be managed by the Finder just like any other Mac or Windows file. Without Windows, it is a far safer and, for me, more intuitive and comfortable arrangement. No Windows is necessary, just the program you want to run. It leaves all the external details - printing, email, web - to the Mac OS. Rather than creating a space for Windows to operate, which would then allow Windows programs to run, CrossOver takes a different approach entirely, using its 200MB footprint to build a “bottle” in which selected Windows programs operate natively. Parallels 8, for instance, starts to become comfortably fast only when it has 4GB of dedicated RAM and more than 15GB of disk storage available.ĬrossOver completely avoids exposure to the social diseases to which Windows is vulnerable. My concerns with the others are the malware that using Windows might bring to our Macs, the extra layers of security about which we’d have to become knowledgeable, and the massive amounts of memory those programs tie up. ParallelsĬrossOver’s approach to allowing a Mac to run specific Windows programs is radically different from Parallels, BootCamp and the other Windows OS-enablers. Later, a very slow and piggy version of Parallels - which has since dramatically improved - became our solution. ![]() In early days when that happened, we bought a few HPs. In more than three decades using and managing hundreds of Macs and their Apple and Lisa predecessors, there have been only a handful of times that have required that my office have the ability to run Windows-specific programs. Unfortunately, even though CrossOver is the perfect answer to our office’s specific needs, that will not happen. I had expected to give CrossOver a resounding “buy” recommendation for anyone with a need to run Windows programs natively on a Mac computer.
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