Parallels and VMWare are both tackling the virtualization approach to running Windows on your Intel Mac - in this example meaning that you can run Windows while running Mac. CrossOver is more akin to Rosetta for Windows in that it lets you run Windows applications without having to have Windows itself installed. This is a far better approach for my needs if it works as promised.

CrossOver went final the other day, and as a die hard Quicken 2007 for Windows user I was anxious to see how well CrossOver ran Quicken on my iMac. The summary is that Quicken 2007 installed perfectly via CrossOver, and I was a bit surprised to see that it launched without problem. There is one inconvenience to this setup, and one show stopper. The inconvenience is that the screen refreshes for Quicken were dead slow, painfully slow! The show stopper is that none of the online activities seemed to work for me, and it is the online accesses that make Quicken so very helpful.

I was quite impressed that Quicken installed and ran without errors, but it doesn't seem to be quite ready for my needs.

Additionally I did install Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows through the CrossOver install menu, but I can't seem to find out how to run it now that I've installed it, oh well - that was more of a curiosity while Quicken is a necessity.

For now I'll continue to access Quicken with Remote Desktop to my MCE Windows machine.



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