Hello all,I am delighted to announce that CodeWeavers has just releasedCrossOver 12 for both Mac OS X and Linux.This release of CrossOver includes major structural changes inCrossOver's underlying Wine technology, as well as a preview ofCrossOver's new "Mac Driver," a technology which will make Windowsapplications integrate more seamlessly with Mac OS X underCrossOver.This release also includes more than 5,000 individual changes toWine, meaning there are numerous improvements in how your favoriteapplications will run under CrossOver. Applications with improvedsupport include the Microsoft Office suite, various Quickenversions, and many of your favorite games. New in CrossOver 12 areofficial support for Quicken 2013; support for the popular gameWorld of Tanks; and, on Linux, support for Guild Wars 2.For the technically minded, CrossOver's new Mac Driver means thatthe X Window System will no longer be needed to run Windowsapplications under CrossOver. The Mac Driver will also offer betterintegration with the native windowing system on the Mac (for example,you can use command-tab to switch between apps running infull-screen mode). The Mac Driver is "experimental" in thisrelease, meaning we will turn it on selectively for applicationswhere we expect improvements. As we continue developing it, and asthe rest of the open-source Wine community adds their improvements,it will become the standard way that CrossOver runs all applicationson Mac OS X.As always, if you are an existing customer with an active supportentitlement, you can download our latest version from http://www.codeweavers.com > and use it. Mac customers who haveautomatic updates enabled and who are entitled to this update willreceive it automatically.If CrossOver 12 asks you for registration credentials, use the sameemail and password which you used to purchase CrossOver from http://www.codeweavers.com >. If you have any trouble, email info@codeweavers.com ' for help.Thank you all for your support, and we hope you enjoy CrossOver 12!Changelog for CrossOver 12.0.0:* CrossOver 12.0.0 - 2012/12/03Mac OS X:- CrossOver now incorporates our experimental Mac Driver. Withthe Mac Driver, Windows programs running under CrossOver nolonger have to use the X Window System to interact with thescreen and keyboard. This feature is currently experimental butwill become the way all CrossOver applications work on OS X inthe future.- CrossOver has improved font handling for fonts used by certainapplications, such as National Mah Jongg League Online.Linux:- CrossOver Linux now installs a single desktop menu itemrather than a multitude of desktop menus. This approach worksbetter with desktop systems such as GNOME 3 and Unity, whichusually don't have a hierarchical desktop menu structure.- CrossOver now has much better support for window transparency(layered windows) when a compositing window manager isavailable. (When the Mac Driver is complete, this feature willbe available on OS X as well). Many transparent windows willnow work that did not before. Improvements in this areainclude:- Microsoft Office applications in the Office 2003 and Office 2007suites will now behave properly when working with embeddedpictures or graphics. Previously, rotating or resizing embeddedgraphics caused the screen to go temporarily black;- Game launchers (such as that for Guild Wars 2, for example) whichuse color-keying to create transparent window areas will displayproperly rather than being drawn with black borders;- ...and many more.- We have resolved some issues which caused printers not to appear.Application Support:- CrossOver now supports World of Tanks.- CrossOver now supports Quicken 2013.- CrossOver now supports installation of .Net 4.0.- CrossOver linux now supports Guild Wars 2. Guild Wars 2 willrun for many people on CrossOver Mac, but many users willencounter persistent graphics problems. Previously, CodeWeavershad released a specially-built version of CrossOver dedicatedto running Guild Wars 2. That is no longer necessary.- Improvements to Microsoft Office:- Fixed a crash displaying certain email messages in Outlook 2010.- Outlook 2010 will now save passwords.- Improved Gmail and other IMAP connections with Outlook 2007.- Fixed auto-discovery during account configuration forOutlook 2007.- PowerPoint 2010 now displays equations in slide shows.- PowerPoint 2010 no longer displays blank slides.- Fixed bugs in Word 2010 which caused the equation editor tobe missing structures and formulas.- Fixed a bug in Word 2010 related to footnote style choices.- Project 2007 and 2010 can now edit dates for recurring tasks.- Fixed a crash in Project 2010 when filtering by resource name.- Visio 2002 can now search for new shapes.- Visio 2010 now displays properly when multiple shapes are open.- Star Trek Online is now faster during game updates.- Quicken 2009 no longer has garbled text on its buttons.- An issue with installation of .Net 3.5 SP1 was resolved.- World of Warcraft has had fixes related to patching andinstallation.CrossOver and Wine:- CrossOver is now based on Wine 1.5.15.- CrossOver's built-in web-browser will offer to download andinstall ActiveX controls.- CrossOver now comes bundled with the Wine-Mono package, analternative implementation of the .Net API.- CrossOver now implements Raw Input, the set of APIs used formouse input by games like Guild Wars 2, World of Tanks, and others.- Support for printing on a variety of paper sizes has been improved.- DirectSound has a new resampler, for higher quality audio.- CrossOver now has sub-pixel font anti-aliasing.