Wine 2.0 is now compatible to Linux - MSoffice 2013

If you run Linux and happen to use Windows software, it’ s time to grab Wine 2.0

This week, Wine&mdash the project that allows you to run many Microsoft Windows applications on non-Windows platforms&mdash hit a rather huge milestone: version 2.0.

From the Wine 2.0 release notes:

“ This release represents over a year of development effort and around 6,600 individual changes. The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013 and the 64-bit support on macOS.”

I’ ll be honest. The Mac OS tidbit isn’ t all that interesting to me. But the support for Microsoft Office 2013 is, almost certainly, of interest to a number of people. (I don’ t use it personally, but I know plenty of organizations that do.)

Beyond MS Office 2013 and a collection of other Windows applications (and lots of games) gaining compatibility, perhaps the most noteworthy item in Wine 2.0 is the change in release scheduling:

“ This is the first release made on the new time-based, annual release schedule. This implies that some features that are being worked on but couldn' t be finished in time have been deferred to the next development cycle. This includes, in particular, the Direct3D command stream, the full HID support, the Android graphics driver, and message-mode pipes.”