“Fifteen years in the making, everyone’s favorite software to
run Windows programs on Linux and Unix, Wine, is almost ready for
its 1.0 release.“If all goes well, Alexandre Julliard, Wine’s lead developer,
says that Wine 1.0 should appear on June 20, two weeks after the
program’s fifteenth birthday. While at this point there are about
1,300 Windows applications that will install and run on Wine to
some degree, only four sets of Windows applications–Photoshop CS2,
PowerPoint Viewer 97 and 2003, Word Viewer 97 and 2003, and Excel
Viewer 97 and 2003–are considered critical for the 1.0
release…”
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