That’s Freakin’ Awesome

Last night I purchased Crossover Office from Code Weavers , for those of you who do not know this is the commercial version of wine with extended support and a fancy configuration manager. The license is decent, I can use it on as many machines as I like as long as I’m only using one instance at a time so I can run it at home and at work without difficulty.
The reason I need to run wine is Lotus Notes. At work (ibm) it is a necessity it works fine under wine but I had been looking at some other windows apps that would be nice to have while working and at home. Here is the list of programs that I am currently using sucessfully with it between my two machines.

Lotus Notes
Internet Explorer (used for testing at work)
iTunes with support for both the music store and ipod)
Audible Download Manager (so I can download books without dual booting)
Musicbrainz mp3 tagger
Windows Media Player 9 (audible again)
Goldwave (convert audio books and iTMS songs to mp3)

For $40 dollars I closed the gap on what I felt I was missing out on running windows. Perhaps the best part is the ease of use (there was a lot of fiddling for iPod support) there is an install manager which will autoinstall supported applications if it is free like iTunes it will just get it for you. If it is not free you either specify a cd or an exe and Crossover Office takes it from there. I can confidently reccommend Crossover Office to anyone who has need of windows apps and ease of use. WOOT!