[acollins]

Like many, I haven't found a good way to make use of OmniFocus at work because it's a Windows-only environment. Today I happened to read about Cocotron, which purports to allow programs written for OS X to run on Windows. I'm no developer, so I don't understand all the details, but I was wondering if this Cocotron project was something that Omni could use to bring OmniFocus to Windows and, is so, whether they would be interested in doing so? I know that I'd happily pay for a second license to use on my work computer.

Cocotron's website is www.cocotron.org if anyone is curious.

[JKT]

Fwiw, the developers of FileMagnet have apparently used this to create a Windows version of the desktop part of their iPhone software.

[JKT]

Btw, here's an article on this:

http://macdaddyworld.com/2008/10/27/...s-in-cocotron/

[Brian]

Huh - I hadn't heard of this, and I just showed this to ken, who also didn't know about it. Thanks for the heads-up!

I've forwarded a link to this thread to him, but don't really feel qualified to otherwise comment on whether this would work for our apps. So I'll leave it to the experts. :-)

[JKT]

I suspect it will be a lot more work than that article makes it sound, given the complexity of most of your desktop applications...

[acollins]

Originally Posted by Brian

Huh - I hadn't heard of this, and I just showed this to ken, who also didn't know about it. Thanks for the heads-up!

I've forwarded a link to this thread to him, but don't really feel qualified to otherwise comment on whether this would work for our apps. So I'll leave it to the experts. :-)

Thanks for passing along the link to the rest of the Omni team. I'm sure it would be a significant undertaking to bring OmniFocus to Windows, assuming it was even technically possible. But if Omni were so inclined, it seems like OmniFocus would be a good candidate and a good potential revenue stream.

[acollins]

Before this thread drifts off into oblivion I wanted to check in one more time and see if, after looking at the technical side of things, the Omniteam has any interest in a Windows version of Omnifocus.

More importantly, does Cocotron run on Fusion or Parallels?

...Hehehehe...

[Brian]

acollins, the idea has definitely been filed away as something to consider, but our existing projects have us very busy. I guess you could say it's been assigned to the Maybe/Someday context. :-)