I'm coming up on my 13-year anniversary with CodeWeavers in the next couple months. And the question of the hour is: why did I decide to come to CodeWeavers, rather than staying in my previous role as an IT consultant? And was that a good call, particularly given that my livelihood is connected to an insanely difficult open-source technology like Wine?
Our fabulous parking lot. Note the shocking lack of BMWs and Porsches...
Flash back to the summer of 2002. I was working as an independent
business analyst, doing a gig at a large local real-estate firm. I was
making very good money. I was also absolutely bored to
tears. So when Jeremy White came calling, saying he needed a right-hand
man to help him run CodeWeavers, and that he couldn't really pay me
hardly anything to start, and would I like an "opportunity" like that, I
honestly didn't hesitate much before saying "Why, yes! I would love an
opportunity to work for an obscure, struggling software company while
earning a lot less money, and a lot more aggravation!"
Fast-forward
to 2015, and here I am. Still. And CodeWeavers is still doing pretty
much the same thing: selling CrossOver. We're making more money, but not
tons more. And from a technical perspective, we're still
rolling a gargantuan rock uphill. Yeah, Wine has come a long way in
thirteen years. It runs a lot more stuff now. But it's still a colossal
pain in the butt to improve it. And not only that, but as more people
have adopted tablets and smartphones, the importance of the Windows
software marketplace has slowly diminished (sort of like my hairline),
meaning that the hard work we do is arguably less important now than it
was when I came aboard. Isn't that just awesome?
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Josh DuBois Sent this message to CodeWeavers Forums
I
am delighted to announce that CodeWeavers has just released CrossOver
14.1.0 for both Mac OS X and Linux. CrossOver 14.1.0 has important bug
fixes for both Mac and Linux users.
CrossOver 14.1.0
fixes a bug which prevented the .NET 3.5 run-time from installing. We
have fixed a crash in Outlook and improved connectivity with certain
Exchange servers. On OS X, we have fixed a problem with maximized
windows which impacted Quicken. For users of Ubuntu Linux, we have
updated our packaging so that CrossOver installs cleanly on Ubuntu
14.04.2. We have improved the start-up time of the CrossOver Software
Installer on all Linux platforms.
Mac customers with
active support entitlements will be upgraded to CrossOver 14.1.0 the
next time they launch CrossOver. Linux users can download the latest
version from http://www.codeweavers.com/.
Change Log :
14.1.1 CrossOver - April 21, 2015
Mac OS X:
We have improved joystick support for several games,
including Final Fantasy VII and Vanguard Princess (winmm
support was improved, so any game which uses this should
benefit).
Other changes:
Allow a new behavior by setting an environment variable,
CX_DIRECT_DESKTOP. Bottles created when this environment variable
is set will use the native Desktop directly instead of putting a link
to it on the Windows Desktop
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CodeWeavers is planning on releasing a technology preview for CrossOver Android sometime this summer. This will give YOU the opportunity to try it out and make suggestions as to how we can improve the CrossOver Android experience and what Windows games and software we should focus our efforts in supporting. Much like CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Linux, our users will have a voice in the direction of the product. And even more so than CrossOver for Mac and CrossOver for Linux, we believe that this type of technology is incredibly compelling considering that you can't run Microsoft Windows on an Android tablet – at all.
With more focus on making Windows games portable on Android devices, it's possible that a whole new game experience is coming in the not so distant future. Games with depth and real AI and multiplayer functionality that create real excitement for
gamers. I'm excited to see the next evolution of gaming. But hey if that doesn't work, we will always be able to fling disgruntled birds.
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CodeWeavers recently released CrossOver 14.1.0 for Linux and mac with a host of bug fixes and application support. Below is the full change log for Crossover 14.1.0 that deatails all the major changes in this release.
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14.1.0 CrossOver - March 17, 2015
Application Support:
It is again possible to install .Net 3.5.
Fixed a hang when using ATOK, a third-party Japanese input
method.
The Equation Editor menu bar in Word 2003 and Word 97 now
works.
The Equation Editor in Word 2003 will no longer freeze after
multiple launches.
Typing a URL into an outgoing email in Outlook 2003 now
automatically generates a clickable hyperlink.
Changing fonts in Outlook 2003 is now possible.
Improved behavior of CrossOver's built-in web browser in
certain web-sites.
Fixed a crash when displaying certain characters with
Uniscribe in Outlook 2010.
Mac OS X:
Fixed a bug which caused application launchers to disappear
when a bottle was renamed.
Fixed a problem which made it difficult to change the window
size for a maximized window (Quicken was among the
impacted applications).
Linux:
Updated package dependencies to allow installation on Ubuntu
14.0.4.2.
Optimized the CrossOver Software Installer for faster
startup times in many cases.
Fixed a bug which sometimes caused CrossOver to fail to open
links in native web browsers.
Added a new option, --destdir, to various internal CrossOver
command line tools. This may make package generation for
Gentoo Linux easier.
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Update includes support for new “Yosemite” Mac Operating System
Runs Quicken 2015, many newer games; Includes latest, greatest Wine 1.7.25 SAINT PAUL, Minn (October 16, 2014) — CodeWeavers, Inc.,
developer of CrossOver—the easiest, fastest way to run Windows software
on Mac and Linux, announced today the release of CrossOver 14. With
CrossOver 14, you can run thousands of Windows software titles, without
the need to buy a Windows OS license.
CrossOver 14 features support for Apple’s latest operating system
release of Mac OS 10.10, more commonly known as “Yosemite,” which was
released on 16 October, 2014. CrossOver 14 works “out-of-the-box” with
Yosemite, and will give Mac users all the benefits from this much
anticipated OS release.
CrossOver 14 contains support for many newer Windows applications, a
prominent example being Quicken 2015. CrossOver also supports many
games, including new support for the very popular Hearthstone (on
Linux), as well as other titles such as Cube World, Path of Exile,
Warcraft III, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Terraria, South Park: The Stick of
Truth, and Xenonauts. CrossOver also runs thousands of other Windows
titles of all types.
CrossOver 14 also includes the very latest release of Wine: Wine
1.7.25. Wine is an open-source software allowing Windows programs to be
run on Unix-based operating systems without the need for Windows itself.
Wine also delivers superior performance and simplicity compared with
virtual machine. The latest release, Wine 1.7.25, embodies another
year’s worth of Wine development, including nearly 5,000 new patches and
application improvements to hundreds of different Windows applications.
CrossOver 14 is available immediately at www.CodeWeavers.com.
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About CodeWeavers
Founded in 1996 as a general software consultancy, CodeWeavers
focuses on the development of Wine –the core technology found in all of
its CrossOver products. The company’s goal is to bring expanded market
opportunities for Windows software developers by making it easier,
faster and more painless to port Windows software to Linux. CodeWeavers
is recognized as a leader in open-source Windows porting technology, and
maintains development offices in Minnesota, the United Kingdom and
elsewhere around the world. The company is privately held. For more
information about CodeWeavers, log on to www.codeweavers.com.
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