Jon Parshall

Member since: Nov 4th, 2008

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How to run Windows apps for free with Wine on OS X (TUAW.com)

Jan 19th 2010 2:35PM Thanks very much for the multiple mentions of CrossOver--we very much appreciate it!

Best Wishes,

-jon parshall-
COO
www.codeweavers.com
"Your Mac/Windows Solution"

CrossOver Games 8.0 released (TUAW.com)

Sep 4th 2009 12:09PM Thanks for the mention of CrossOver--we appreciate it.

Best Wishes,

-jon parshall-
COO
www.codeweavers.com
"Your Mac Windows Solution"

A year later, CodeWeavers urges free CrossOver users to pay up (Download Squad)

Aug 31st 2009 12:13PM Some points of clarification:

1) Yes, our sales were impacted somewhat by the giveaway during Q4 2008. But 2008 still ended up being a record year for us anyway, and 2009 hasn't been bad, either. So, despite the sort of crazy scale of the giveaway, we feel like it was a great success. We had fun with it, and we hope our users did, too. No one needs to view our efforts around year-end upgrades as being some sort of a pity party to help us recover from the effects of the giveaway. That's not at all the case. Rather, we hope that people will extend their support because they found the product useful. If they didn't, that's fine.

2) We actually haven't yet started actively sending emails to all of the folks who downloaded the product for free last year. We've done some test mailings to a few, just trying to figure out what we want to offer in the way of promos when the year expiration date draws closer at the end of October. We'll be getting more serious about that in a few more weeks.

3) Yes, we intend to offer a new version of CrossOver Mac closer to that renewal date that will have some significant value-add to our users.

4) Yes, we are the largest corporate supporter of the Wine Project, and do a great deal of the "heavy lifting" in Wine in terms of tackling some of the really difficult technical problems. The Project's maintainer, Alexandre Julliard, is our CTO. We employ many of the best Wine developers. And everything we do gets put back into free Wine. That's why PlayOnLinux works as well as it does--it's based on the work on Wine we do around games. That's all good; that's how the open-source world works. But when folks give kudos to free Wine (and sometimes at the expense of CodeWeavers)("f*** that, I'll just use free Wine..."), it would be well to remember that a lot of free Wine *is* from CodeWeavers. And you're welcome. ;-)

Cheers,

-jon parshall-
COO
www.codeweavers.com

Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac, Third Edition (TUAW.com)

Feb 27th 2009 2:21PM Thanks for the mention of CrossOver. I'd mention that, yeah, Wine works as well CrossOver, in general terms, but it's not as stable on a day-to-day basis. Someone puts in a patch that fixes App A, it may break App B. That's not usually a huge problem, but it's something to be aware of. Our business users tend to appreciate the fact that MS Office works, release after release.

Cheers,

-jon parshall-
COO
www.codeweavers.com

Ask TUAW: Preventing automounting, Exchange support, printing selections, and more (TUAW.com)

Feb 27th 2009 2:15PM Just wanted to clarify that CrossOver Mac does have Outlook 2007 with Exchange support. So if you need Outlook, our product is a good way to go. Thanks to the other posters that mentioned CrossOver--we appreciate it!

Cheers,

-jon parshall-
COO
www.codeweavers.com

So you just got an iMac -- now what? (TUAW.com)

Jan 5th 2009 3:50PM Thanks for your mention of CrossOver--we appreciate it.

-jon parshall-
COO
www.codeweavers.com

CrossOver Games supports Wrath of the Lich King (WoW)

Nov 20th 2008 4:22PM Thanks for the interest in our announcement. A couple of *very* important points on Michael's announcement:

1) I didn't try tanking, I confess, so I'm a n00b in that respect. Most of my 'toons are clothies; squishies FTW!

2) I *do* have the Skills to Pay the Bills: the Wowwiki article on money management was written largely by yours truly. ;-)

3) More to the point, we have received some reports that some Linux distros are having troubles installing Lich King due to the inability to acknowledge the EULA. We're working on this, and will have a fix shortly. There *is* a workaround, and any customer of ours can get that workaround by upgrading their version to the unsupported CrossOver Games 7.12 version. We'll have the fix in the main product shortly.

Cheers,

-jon parshall-
COO
CodeWeavers

CodeWeavers cancels free giveaway program, honors existing registrations (Download Squad)

Nov 4th 2008 2:48PM Hi Wolven,

We didn't take the promotion down until midnight Tuesday night CST, exactly at the time we said we'd taken it down. I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Best Wishes,

-jon parshall-
COO
CodeWeavers

CodeWeavers cancels free giveaway program, honors existing registrations (Download Squad)

Nov 4th 2008 2:47PM We finished mailing codes on the 2nd. You should have it by now. If not, please contact our support team via our ticket system.

Best Wishes,

-jon parshall-
COO
CodeWeavers

CodeWeavers cancels free giveaway program, honors existing registrations (Download Squad)

Nov 4th 2008 2:45PM We had more than 400,000 emails to send out, which took us until about Sunday night to get out there. If you haven't received a code yet, please contact our product support team via our ticket system.

Cheers,

-jon parshall-
COO
CodeWeavers