Well I installed wine by following the instructions in this thread http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=19840 I'm reasonably seasoned with linux but not the eeePC or Xandros ... and I've never had to use wine before. However I'm hoping the eeePC can take the place of my large WinXP laptop as far as possible. To do that, BBO is pretty essential. I've also just tried installing the demo version of Crossover Office and I get the exact same problem. Hang on a sec, did I hear you mention a Flash version of NetBridgeVu.exe ? That sounds like just the ticket. I could dispense with wine entirely. Where can I get the beta from? :) (edit: Aha, found it, will have a good play ...) Dan