Run Microsoft Office 2016 and Games on Linux with CodeWeavers CrossOver 17

Yup, that means the latest version of CodeWeaver‘s commercial Wine offering also supports the latest version of Microsoft’s hugely popular Office suite, including both Home and Business editions.
And that’s big news. LibreOffice and Google Docs are near-perfect replacements for most of us, but many students and business still require the use of Microsoft Office products or file formats. As great as interoperability is these days few alternatives are as fuss-free as opting to install Office on Linux using Wine.

Other Windows software and games that feature improved CrossOver 17 support:

• Microsoft Office 2016
• Microsoft Office 2013
• League of Legends
• Everquest
• Everquest II
• WebSite-Watcher
• Battle.Net

CrossOver 17 also features a large update to the Wine compatibility layer, a move that brings thousands of big fixes and usability improvements to users’ desktops and the (ever growing) array of software it supports.

Buy CrossOver 17

CrossOver 17 for Linux and macOS is available to purchase right now from the CodeWeavers website.

A free trial is also available if you want to test things out before you commit.

Wait: I thought Wine was free?

Wine is free, open-source software. It’s available to install on Ubuntu (and other Linux distributions) from the repos, for absolutely nothing.

CrossOver is (in effect) a commercial version of Wine. It’s not free; you have to pay for it. But many people are happy to do this — and no, they’re not crazy!

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The WineHQ Wine development release 3.0 RC 2 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 3.0 RC 2 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

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 3.0-rc2 (total 17):

  22682  Multiple games need function d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXGetShaderInputSemantics (Far Cry 2/3, Avatar, Faery: Legends of Avalon, Civilization 4, Deathspank, Of Orcs and Men)
  32202  ActiveX install attempts to run wrong inf section
  39586  Fallout 4 - Steam Version - Crash on Start-up
  40046  Multiple games require CheckFormatSupport() (Banished, Magic Duels, UE4 tech demos, BioShock 2, Chronicles of Mystara, STO, Lichdom)
  40680  Rocket league needs bcrypt.dll.BCryptGenerateSymmetricKey
  40692  Rocket League needs AES encryption/ decryption implemented in bcrypt.dll
  40901  Factorio crashes with a stack overflow
  41463  Undefined symbols: _DisableThreadLibraryCalls _RaiseException
  43643  Combobox not longer has dropdown
  43915  uTorrent 2.2.1 build 25302 crashes after deleting the last torrent and exiting
  43953  Regression in Spellforce 2: message boxes about fatal dx9 errors appear on map loading
  44010  Armel support
  44130  Possible access to unintended variable in "dlls/comctl32/imagelist.c" line 299
  44147  regression in ole2 datacache
  44148  DX Library: Multiple PlaySoundMem() calls don't work when using XAudio2
  44153  ShellExecute crash when opening explorer.exe
  44171  PTHREAD_STACK_MIN breaks build on GNU hurd

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