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Wine 1.8 Released (winehq.org)

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Wine 1.8.0 is now the latest stable release of Wine Is Not An Emulator and available from WineHQ.org. Wine 1.8 features include support for DirectWrite, Direct2D support, very limited Direct3D 11 support, simple application support of DIrect3D 10, support for process jobs, 64-bit architecture support on OS X, networking updates, and over 13,000 other individual changes.

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  1. Yeah by colinrichardday · · Score: 4, Funny

    Time to download!

    1. Re:Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      With native Linux apps, because none of the Windows browsers work well in Wine. And no, I'm not kidding: From the apps database:

                14000 apps
                  4000 rated as "garbage"
                  2600 rated as "bronze", which is usually a very generous rating
                  3000 rated as "silver", which translates to "keeps multiple copies of your data without corrupting old copies
                  3500 as "gold", which means "operates almost as well as it did on Windows 7"
                  4000 rated as "platinum", which means "doesn't break for people who don't actually know how to use the more detailed features of the original program"

      I've worked with wine repeatedly when people thought to "save money and effort" by wrapping Windows apps in it. I then found the idiot who hired the "economizer", and got both of them hired by a competitor I wanted to fail.

  2. Re:Wine is bad, Winelib is better by Guy+Harris · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wine is much less reliable and yields much lower performance than recompiling this same application with Winelib.

    So are Microsoft using CodePlex or GitHub for the Office for Windows source code?