Wired Talks Wine

matroid writes "Wired reports that the upcoming WINE version 1.0 may be just what Linux needs to get users to migrate from Windows to Linux."

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Re:WINE necessary??

[cb0y]

Man mozzila is so frickin slow it runs slow then netscape1.2 on a 486.

Even the preferences are dog slow and buggy with useless pathetic error messages.

IE vs Mozilla is about a 8:1 speed difference.

Still with 2 machines side by side RH7.2 + W2K ,both 17inch monitors, I Prefer the W2k box.

WHY SO MUCH EMPHASIS ON M$ OFFICE?

[evilviper]

This CRAP is driving me NUTS!!! Why is it that every journalist in the world believes that a port of M$ Office to Linux will magically bring users en mass to Linux? Linux has Applix Ware, Word Perfect, Think Free Office, and the "Completely free and completely compatible with M$": StarOffice/OpenOffice.

The Word/Excel/PwrPoint/Access replacement applications are there, and in my opinion, better than the M$ Programs they replace.

So what idiot can still believe that one single application is so powerful that it's keeping millions of people from switching to a more stable, more versitile, completely free Operating System?