Since 2016, CodeWeavers has been contracted to work with Valve on Proton, a compatibility layer for running Windows games through Steam on Linux.

[4] For CrossOver, the company originally focused on making the Microsoft Office suite and other supported productivity software available on Linux.

In July 2008, CodeWeavers launched the Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge[8] to encourage President Bush to make the most of his remaining days in office by accomplishing a major economic or political goal by January 20, 2009.

The goals focused on President Bush making specific positive accomplishments in areas such as the economy, home values, the stock market, the war on terror and other key issues.

Specifically, one goal called for President Bush to help bring down average gasoline prices in the Twin Cities to $2.79 a gallon.

Traffic via Slashdot, Digg, and other sources overloaded and brought down the CodeWeavers website as people rushed to get the free-of-charge software.

"[9] Additionally, CodeWeavers updated their site to reflect the statement: "Please check back again for registration code information later today.