[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:10:56PM -0700, Gus Wirth wrote:
This news itself is already almost a week old and many of the major
distributions will be making package releases "soon". However, if you
are running Fedora, the wait may be longer than for others and the
packages you get will be crippled in the sense they don't include the
MP3 options in the original.
This seems to be faux news. IIRC It still doesn't run M$ Office
which is the gold standard for any Windows emulation. Correct me if I'm wrong
but it seems they just lowered
their standards to get to v1.0 for the publicity.
chris
Not all Office versions, no. CrossoverOffice (now called just Crossover)
runs Office 2000. Since WINE is the .n-versions-ahead precursor to
Crossover, WINE obviously does indeed run at least Office 2000.
But of course, MS makes undocumented internal changes just often enough
to inhibit the compatibility of anyone else every chance it gets, so
there's no way any unauthorized emulator will ever really be current.
Given it's hard enough to write Windows-specific apps which run on
Windows, I think it's remarkable that WINE-hosted apps run as well as
some of them do. Especially anything in Office, since, AFAIK, MS doesn't
make /all/ interoperability documentation available even to all its
in-house devs, let alone /any/ outside devs.
[WINE == Wine Is Not an Emulator. (It's an API (ABI?) black box)]
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