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Wine 1.8 Released (winehq.org)
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.
Why do you even bother responding to ACs? You've certainly been around long enough to know better.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
"Wine is an emulator. Anyone who tells you otherwise, that's just bullshit PR."
--Ryan C. Gordon (icculus)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ6gXEoxIZI&t=4431
Perhaps because you don't care to pay for a Windows license, or agree to Microsoft's EULA?
Having it run in the actual host OS via using libraries has a large number of advantages - from the utterly obvious of being able to cut and paste between applications onwards. Do you really want to muck about transferring the files you want to work on to a VM? I've done that and it gets old fast even for hobby stuff.
Having to run an entire extra desktop with all the overhead to run a single application may be the way that people are used to doing it with RDP and MS Windows, but it's a pain in the neck in comparison to just clicking on a menu item or icon to start the thing as if it was in it's native OS.