Another key change allows the use of Wine on 64-bit MacOS systems. Wine gives non-Windows users access to such important apps as Adobe Photoshop, Audition, Reason 4, iTunes, and games such as Fallout 3, StarCraft II, World of Warcraft and Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.Īs mentioned in the intro, one of the key new features in Wine 2.0 is the support for Microsoft Office 2013. The implementation is good enough to support the installation and use of thousands of Windows programs, sometimes including complex bulky applications which have difficulty running properly between different versions of Windows. It works by translating Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly". As ZDNet sums up Wine "implements the Windows API on top of the Unix/Linux operating system family. If you don't know what Wine is or need a Wine refresher, this is open source software which allows Windows applications to run on Macs, BSD Unix, and desktop Linux. Wine 2.0 has taken over a year of development effort to reach its final release stage and there have been around 6,600 code changes to get it to this point. In an announcement on the Wine HQ blog the highlights of the release were said to be support for Microsoft Office 2013, and 64-bit support on MacOS. Open source Windows compatibility project Wine reached a major milestone earlier this week with the stable release of Wine 2.0.
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