'We would have loved to have been the only solution out for a while.' 'It's unfortunate we couldn't get it out before,' White said in an interview. CEO Jeremy White said he would have liked to have seen his product out before the rivals. A company called CodeWeavers is using an open-source technology called Wine to allow some Windows programs to run under Mac OS X.ĬodeWeavers is in early testing with CrossOver Office for Mac now and plans to release a final version of the software in July or August. Soon there will be yet another option, which, unlike the current choices, doesn't even require a copy of Windows. Meanwhile, start-up Parallels has released software that lets the Microsoft operating system run in a separate virtual machine with only a slight loss in performance. For one, Apple has its own Boot Camp software, which lets Intel-based Macs boot up with either Windows or Mac OS X. There was only one option: running Virtual PC emulation software.īut with Apple Computer's shift to Intel chips, the pool of options has expanded considerably. It used to be that running Windows programs on a Mac was a slow, painful process.
