Mike D’s Blog

You read that right. Free software! For those that don’t know Codeweavers they make emulation software for the Mac (and games too). Basically you can run the software, load up a supported Windows app, and it runs “natively” on the Mac – no VM required. It sounds nice in practice and does work pretty well. Not every app is supported. Not every app runs well. However, those apps that do run and run well are pretty useful. I actually use it to run Siebel of all things. Siebel only runs on IE6 – both of which are completely horrible software packages by the way. Anyhow, I have IE6 loaded up in Crossover and now it runs on my Mac without having to buy a copy of Windows. Of course I use VMware Fusion for everything else I have to do in Windows.

Back to the free software part. The CEO of Codeweavers issued a challenge to President Bush to achieve something useful and impacting in his last days in office. Funny enough his first challenge of lowering the price of gas happened. It was more an accident than anything that President Bush did but now Codeweaver software is free for a day.

For more details see the Codeweavers press release. Personally I hope the next one on the list comes true so I can retire: Return the stock market to it’s 2008 high.