(clug-talk) Wine

[b-r-i-a-n -]

Hi all,

I haven't had an opportunity to post in quite a while as I have been very 
busy job hunting.  Anyway, just an update on Wine.  This is semi-old news 
now, but for those of you that haven't heard...  CrossOver Office can now 
run OfficeXP!  The fine folks at CodeWeavers are normally really good about 
merging their changes back into the main Wine distro a few months after the 
fact, so we can probably expect to see support for OfficeXP in the main Wine 
distro soon I hope.

Next in the news, Microsoft phased out Internet Explorer 5, and it is no 
longer available from their website. This is of importance, as IE5 is the 
easiest version to get running under Wine, though 6 isn't much harder.  In 
any case, you can probably still find IE5 on mirrors.  According to Slashdot 
after IE6 SP1 Microsoft will stop releasing free standalone versions of 
Internet Explorer.  They will only be offering IE as part of their operating 
system.  The moral of the story is, get IE while you still can, or just use 
Mozilla...  :-)

Regards,

Brian H.

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