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15 years in the making, Wine 1.0 is in sight

Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:39 pm
by LinuxMint-4
15 years in the making, Wine 1.0 is in sight

Mar. 19, 2008

For far longer than any of its developers would care to recall, Wine, the best program to use in Linux to run Windows applications, has been in development. Now, at long last, Wine 1.0 is scheduled to be released.

To be exact, Wine (Wine is not an emulator) 1.0 should appear June 6, on the project's 15th birthday. While at this point there are 1,229 Windows applications that install and run out of the box, the Platinum applications, using Wine on Linux, only four Microsoft applications – Photoshop CS2, PowerPoint Viewer 97 and 2003, and Word Viewer 97 and 2003, and Excel Viewer 97 and 2003 – are being considered as critical for the 1.0 release.

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