Wine Staging 1.8 Is Out for Linux, Lets Users Apply Official Windows Updates | Linux Today

Wine Staging 1.8 Is Out for Linux, Lets Users Apply Official Windows Updates

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Marius Nestor
Dec 22, 2015

One of the most interesting things implemented in today’s Wine Staging 1.8 software is support for Windows updates. The new feature is called WUSA and stands for Windows Update Stand-Alone Installer, and if you’re already wondering how does it work, we can tell you that it can be used to install official Windows Updates packages on Microsoft Windows Vista and higher implementations.

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Marius Nestor

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