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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. Re:Why not make & run a Windows VM? by Microlith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps because you don't care to pay for a Windows license, or agree to Microsoft's EULA?