MS Office with CrossOver more stable than under MS Windows ?

[cc]

hi

I heard, MS Office applications with CrossOver should run more stable
than under MS Windows ?
is it true ?

greetings
cc

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

well, if you take the fact that linux is more stable than windows then possible
nah, it depends on the quality of crossover office, which i can't comment on, but i've known CS to run faster under wine than in windows, so it's possible.

[techieMoe]

I didn't do *extensive* testing the last time I ran Office in Xandros (using Crossover Office), but it didn't give me any problems. Honestly the last time I used Office in XP I had no stability problems whatsoever, so it's kind of hard for me to compare "stability" when neither is really "unstable" at all.

[Roxoff]

Thinking about it logically, it couldn't possibly be true. Microsoft Office is going to be just as stable either way round - the same code is being executed in both instances. And if you execute it on an environment that is essentially a reverse-engineered copy of the Windows platform API's, you're likely to introduce a level of instability, the size of which is impossible to measure, but will certainly be there.

[techieMoe]

Thinking about it logically, it couldn't possibly be true. Microsoft Office is going to be just as stable either way round - the same code is being executed in both instances. And if you execute it on an environment that is essentially a reverse-engineered copy of the Windows platform API's, you're likely to introduce a level of instability, the size of which is impossible to measure, but will certainly be there.

I have to agree. Software running on its intended platform should always (at least in theory) run more stable than software running on something else via third-party code.