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Originally Posted by jer2eydevil88
I'm much more interested in what Codega will cook up for Windows Emulation in OS X than what Microsoft will offer. For those who don't know Codega builds the OpenOffice software for linux that succesfully emulates a Windows 9x/2k system for applications to run in. With the release of Vista Microsoft will likely no longer make applications that are backward compatible to the point that OpenOffice will still emulate them, so this means a great period of innovation.
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No offense, man, but that's a major swing and a miss. You're confusing three products: C
edega, CrossoverOffice, and OpenOffice.org.
Transgaming produces Cedega, which is a Win32/DirectX compatibility layer based on WINE. It's not an emulator, it's an open-sourced rewrite of the win32 protocols. It runs at near-native speed (assuming identical architecture). Actually, some things run better because Linux often has less overhead than Windows. Cedega focuses exclusively on games.
CodeWeavers produces CrossoverOffice, which is also based on WINE but is focused less on games and more on productivity software. Same general idea.
OpenOffice.org is a cross-platform office suite released under the LGPL. They currently aren't developing the Mac version, because Mac folks don't like using X11. There's supposedly a Mac fork called JOffice or NeoOffice or something, but I don't know how that's going.
And Vista WILL be backwards compatible. Just clearing that up.