Microsoft Office 2013 Is the Most Requested App on CrossOver for Linux and Mac

Skyrim and Guild Wars 2 are among the most requested games

CodeWeavers, the developer of the commercial and cross-platform CrossOver application that lets Linux and Mac users run Windows apps and games, wants to know on which Windows programs they should concentrate their efforts.

The company published a list of Windows applications and games that are very popular among Linux and Mac users, so that you can vote your favorite ones. The programs with the most votes will have better support in the upcoming versions of CrossOver.

Among these apps, we can mention Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft Office 365, VMware vSphere Client, Origin, Microsoft Visio Professional 2013, Quicken 2015, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5, Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Outlook 2013, Microsoft Visio 2010, iTunes 11, DirectX 11, and Quicken 2014.

Moreover, the The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Elite Dangerous, Diablo III, The Elder Scrolls Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Steam, World of Tanks, Final Fantasy XIV, and Fallout 3 are among the games that are on the list.

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Wine 1.7.47 Released

The Wine development release 1.7.47 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• Text drawing in Direct2D.
• Support for the new thread pool API.
• Toolbar state saving.
• Beginnings of an implementation for proper HID support.
• Support for file objects in device drivers.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

 Bugs fixed in 1.7.47 (total 48):

   3077  WeatherScope: Right mouse button stuck
   6955  Multiple games need software vertex blending implementation (NOLF2, Divinity 2, Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online, PSU:AOTI)
   9210  3DMark06 doesn't recognize Pixel Shaders 2.0
  11499  sound effects not played correctly Battlefield 1942
  15924  VT Trader freezes during login
  17402  Battlefield 2 runs unplayably slow (and mission loading takes longer) on ATi with GLSL
  17597  CharmTale2 crashes when releasing mshtml
  22384  DbgHelp doesn't support DWARF-2 on Mac OS X
  22579  Outlook Express does not show menu bar
  22782  Battlefield 1942: missing some textures inside vehicles
  24850  Explorer++ resets custom toolbar buttons on each startup
  25289  Civilization 4: fails with 'error loading shader libraries' unless native d3dx9_26 is used
  26262  No video output in Commandos - Behind Enemy lines
  27286  Source Insight: Crashes when jumping to function definition.
  28125  Microsoft 'ctfmon.exe' crashes on unimplemented function msctf.dll.TF_InitMlngInfo
  28875  NullDC 1.0.4 (Dreamcast emulator) crashes when starting system (shader 'register' keyword used at global scope)
  29326  Magicka crashes on audio init with winealsa.drv
  29636  QQ International crashes after login
  30686  Word 2010 Pro Plus adds spaces before umlauts
  31001  SecureCRT:  could not write to the host key database file
  31156  Skyrim does not work with ENB
  31391  anarchy online game crashing after login
  33907  Civilization 4: missing some sound (could not read file)
  34945  AppleWin 1.23.0: CPU usage is very high when should be minimal
  35192  Multiple Adobe applications crash on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.CreateThreadpool (Vista+ API)(Lightroom 5.x, Creative Cloud)
  35789  Morrowind random crashes during game play.
  36164  valgrind shows an unitialized variable in programs/cmd/tests/batch.c
  36171  valgrind shows several leaks in winmm/waveform.c
  36194  valgrind shows some possible leaks in mmdevapi/tests/dependency.c
  36236  valgrind shows a leak in comctl32/tests/propsheet.c
  36265  valgrind shows a couple leaks in dmband/tests/dmband.c
  36270  valgrind shows several leaks in dmcompos/tests/dmcompos.c
  36271  valgrind shows several leaks in dmime/tests/dmime.c
  36273  valgrind shows several leaks in dmstyle/tests/dmstyle.c
  36357  valgrind shows a leak in dswave/tests/dswave.c
  36364  valgrind shows a few leaks in ieframe/tests/intshcut.c
  36837  Steam fallout new vegas error
  37306  Multiple applications trying to use Vista+ Thread Pool Timer API crash on startup with Wine configured as Vista or higher ('CreateThreadpoolTimer')(64-bit ApexDC 1.6.0, Watchtower Library 2014)
  38474  Quake Live launcher fails to start
  38492  vcrun2008 does not install via Winetricks under Kubuntu 15.04.  Works in Kubuntu 14.04.
  38493  Steam steamwebhelper based on CEF 41.x crashes in Win7 mode (needs Kernel32.SetFileCompletionNotificationModes)
  38510  STDU (Scientific and Technical Documentation Utility) Viewer v1.6.375 crashes when opening PDF file (typelib information for marshaller from registry-free COM server)
  38660  NUMA Explorer crashes on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.GetNumaProcessorNode
  38714  64-bit ARM Windows applications from Windows SDK for Windows 10 crash in entry (loader needs to set/randomize security cookie for PE modules)
  38796  dwrite analyzer test crashes on my system
  38822  FotoSketcher Portable 3.00 reports 'Exception externe C06D007F' on startup when running as 'Windows Vista' or higher (wants UxTheme.dll 'DrawThemeTextEx')
  38832  Painting artifacts when moving a window that clips its children
  38864  Microsoft Lync Basic 2013 (MS Office 15.0) installer crashes

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CodeWeavers CrossOver Mac running on OS X El Capitan

CodeWeavers CrossOver Mac is now running on the beta release of Apples latest OS X El Capitan. With CrossOver Mac running on the early beta we should see support for the operating system update shortly after its official release. Later this year to early next year CodeWeavers will have support for Microsoft Office 2013, DirectX 10 and 11, Oculus Rift Virtual reality head sets and a host of other fixes and improvements for applications and games.

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Wine 1.7.46 Released

The Wine development release 1.7.46 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• Improvements in the BITS file transfer service.
• Still more progress on DirectWrite implementation.
• Support for shared user data on 64-bit.
• Various C++ runtime improvements.
• Some more support for the 64-bit ARM platform.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

 Bugs fixed in 1.7.46 (total 67):

   6316  MYOB V13 prints a blank page
  15564  BlogJet: typing text and account signup don't work
  16196  Back and Forward buttons in Google Sketchup's 3D Warehouse do nothing
  16885  Yahoo Messenger 8/9 menu invisible, 'X' box hotspot in wrong place
  19648  Lotus Organizer 97 - No text on tabs
  19695  Gox Box window loses focus when list box is expanded
  20927  MYOB version 6 crashes when printing
  22085  Roller Coaster Tycoon can't change the screen resolution
  23148  Lotus Freelance Graphics 2.1 reports a C runtime error and exits
  24823  Miranda IM crashes with a modern contact list plugin
  26656  Cherry-SMS desktop app crashes / shows no country code
  26791  backtraces broken on gcc 4.7
  28148  Neuro Hunter: certain effects are invisible
  28189  regsvr32: No usage in wineconsole
  29929  Demo installer stuck at program folder selection
  30805  Graphical glitch in the menu of Medieval total war
  30873  BMFont crashes on visualise option or save bitmap font as
  31228  "A simple IOCP Server/Client Class" locks up in GetMessage
  31694  A ton of 'error loading char 255 - bad news!' errors when compiling wine with newer Freetype
  31757  Adobe Application Manager 6.x/7.x download fails with error code A12E5 (winhttp request headers missing byte range)
  32127  Oblivion Launcher crash on start
  32214  Shaiya Online (MMORPG, Aeria Games) crashes on startup
  32550  Points2Grid crashes on calculation
  33831  AliWangwang hangs before login
  33849  Multiple 64-bit kernel drivers crash on access to KI_USER_SHARED_DATA range (0xfffff78000000000) (Tages DRM, Comodo Backup)
  34112  Skilors Grooveshark Downloader installer crashes
  34357  TaxAct 2012 and 2013 crash on startup
  34406  Finale Notepad 2012 doesn't copy/create user files on program start
  34843  Garmin BaseCamp 4.1.2 fails due to unimplemented gdiplus.GdipCreateRegionRgnData
  35537  Easy Bridge version 4.0.2 installer crashes
  35540  Netgear Powerline 3.1: desktop shortcut blank
  35775  Multiple Realarcade installers crash on startup due to IFile::PutAttributes method stub
  35949  Starcraft Campaign Editor does not highlight links in triggers on hover
  36192  valgrind shows a definite leak in mmdevapi/tests/capture.c
  36235  valgrind shows 3 leaks in amstream/tests/amstream.c
  36318  valgrind shows a leak in quartz/tests/filtermapper.c
  36321  valgrind shows a possible leak in quartz/tests/referenceclock.c
  36324  valgrind shows a leak in rpcrt4/tests/ndr_marshall.c
  36555  valgrind shows a definite leak in amstream/tests/amstream.c
  36780  Tomb Raider III (steam) crashes
  36916  Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars Demo reports 'Please make sure you have DirectX 9.0 or higher installed.'
  36953  Galactic Civilizations II: stars not rendered
  37303  Change of paper size in print dialog do not update DEVMODE dmFormName member
  37307  Urban Assault black screen when using software renderer (incorrect device enumeration order)
  37403  Regedit: Wrong default registry key is selected
  37502  Naturosoft Pro fails on startup with 'Run-time error 445: Object doesn't support this action' (needs richedit:ITextRange_fnExpand method implementation)
  37767  IOCTL_DVD_READ_STRUCTURE expects the wrong size of output buffer for some requests
  38114  Steam client doesn't allow to install games in different locations (needs kernel32.GetVolumePathName implementation)
  38364  AutoPatcher Updater 1.4.x needs IFileSystem3::GetSpecialFolder()
  38411  3DMark05 v1.30 crashes during system info scan (needs support for 'Win32_Process' WMI class 'WorkingSetSize' property)
  38470  __chkstk not implemented on ARM
  38517  Winhttprequest doesn't keep user logged in
  38525  Winhttprequest follows redirects to wrong url
  38624  jre-8u45-windows-i586.exe installer exits silently (needs advapi32.dll GetWindowsAccountDomainSid stub)
  38638  Bad text encoding output in regsvr32 console output
  38645  QQ 6.x crashes after open the qqzone tab (webkit crash)
  38691  Dia Portable 0.97 crashes on startup in libcairo-2
  38695  valgrind shows uninitialized memory in dlls/gdi32/freetype.c:WineEngInit() (win64)
  38713  Link failure due to use of libunwind in ntdll
  38719  64-bit ARM Windows applications from Windows SDK for Windows 10 crash when accessing TEB/PEB members (AArch64 platform specific register X18 must be reserved for TEB)
  38739  valgrind shows a possible leak in ole32/tests/usrmarshal.c
  38747  msvcrt.dll does not implement _getwch, _getwche, and _ungetwch
  38752  Foobar2000 UPnP/DLNA media server hangs on exit
  38758  SlingPlayer 1.x installers fail
  38764  Improper device request/IRP handling causes heap corruption in wineserver
  38769  Additional AES algorithms in schannel break wine build
  38783  64bit msys32 crashes on unimplemented RtlCopyMemory

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World of Tanks for Mac OS

CodeWeavers, with support from Wargaming, has developed a software solution that allows Mac OS X users to join the ranks of World of Tanks and battle!

If you're interested, you'll need to do the following:

1. Download CodeWeavers Mac Wrapper
2. Launch the downloaded file
3. Move the World of Tanks icon to the ‘Applications’ folder
4. After installation, start the launcher to begin to download and install the World of Tanks client

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