Picasa on Mac via Crossover Office

Codeweavers, who provided the expertise to get Picasa working on Linux, have released a (time limited) beta of Crossover Office for Mac. This is their commercial version of the same Wine technology that Picasa on Linux uses, so it is not at all surprising that using it allows Picasa to also run on the (Intel based models of the) Mac.

Such a development of course raises the question as to whether Google will make the same arrangements on the Mac as they did on Linux, so that Picasa becomes a fully supported (and zero-cost) application on that platform.  (Whilst the beta version of Crossover Office is free, once the beta expires the full version will cost $60 - which is lot just to run a free photo organizer!)