Written by Tom Wickline
Sunday, 16 May 2010 23:36

This is the 362 issue of the World Wine News publication. Its main goal is to bring an update on GSoC status and the introduction of the Games Spotlight segment. It also serves to inform you of whats going on around Wine. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. You can find more info at www.winehq.org

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:01

About Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office system) is the most recent version of Microsoft's productivity suite. Formerly known as Office "12" in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006 and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007. These are, respectively, the same dates Windows Vista was released to volume licensing and retail customers. Office 2007 contains a number of new features, the most notable of which is the entirely new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface (initially referred to as the Ribbon UI), replacing the menus and toolbars that have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception. Office 2007 requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, or Windows Vista.

Office 2007 also includes new applications and server-side tools. Chief among these is Groove, a collaboration and communication suite for smaller businesses, which was originally developed by Groove Networks before being acquired by Microsoft in 2005. Also included is Office SharePoint Server 2007, a major revision to the server platform for Office applications, which supports "Excel Services", a client-server architecture for supporting Excel workbooks that are shared in real time between multiple machines, and are also viewable and editable through a web page.

Wine-Doors 0.1.3rc1 (Rioja) Released

Written by Tom Wickline
Sunday, 25 January 2009 08:58

Wine-Doors 0.1.3rc1 has been released - hopefully our only release candidate before 0.1.3.

There have been tons of bug fixes, new features and packages added since 0.1.2.

If you find any bugs, please don’t forget to file a report in our trac.

Highlights of this release include

Preliminary support for OpenSolaris
Improved networking (no more NetworkManager and better proxy support!)
Support for setting wine theme to match GTK
Fixes to many packages
Many new packages

See the changelog for a more comprehensive list.

Update: There are now RPM’S on the download page.

IEs4Linux 2.99.0.1 fixes blank screen bug

Written by Tom Wickline
Friday, 08 February 2008 03:44

From the IEs4Linux site:

Many people are reporting this problem to me lately: when using IEs4Linux with recent wine versions (>=0.9.52), the ie toolbar disappear and others display bugs happen. Here is IEs4Linux 2.99.0.1 that fixes only this bug. It’s an emergency release since 2.99.1 is not ready yet (as you know I’m late with this due to recent personal problems). I’m now finishing 2.99.1 that will have a lot of improvements and much better Mac compatibility.

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Wineskin Winery 1.2 Released

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 06 October 2011 09:15

Just a couple of small updates, but getting in gear for a Wineskin 2.5 update and WS8 engines soon, so thought I'd get the Winery bugs fixed and pushed out.

Downloaded Engines, and Engines you ignore will never prompt as new again
If your downloaded engine is corrupted, Wineskin Winery will prompt you instead of trying to build and making a broken wrapper.

Have fun!

Wine 1.3.29 Released

Written by Tom Wickline
Friday, 23 September 2011 09:59

The Wine development release 1.3.29 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Extensive support for VBScript.
Various improvements to the calendar common control.
A number of XRender fixes and optimizations.
Several new functions in the MSVCP runtime.
A number of audio fixes.
DirectDraw cleanups.
Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Bugs fixed in 1.3.29:

Written by Tom Wickline
Monday, 01 August 2011 12:25

Wineskin Pro users can now easily play hundreds of Windows games on their Mac computers with the wrappers from PaulTheTall. The cost of Wineskin Pro 2.3 is $29.95 and comes with six months of upgrades and support.

Here is the Game list:

Written by Tom Wickline
Tuesday, 19 July 2011 01:45

CODEWEAVERS RELEASES SUPPORT FOR LION OS
“Well, I mean, what choice did we have?” says CodeWeavers CEO.

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (July 18, 2011) — CodeWeavers, Inc., CodeWeavers, Inc., a leading developer of software products that turn Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems, not surprisingly announced today the release of CrossOver 10.1 and CrossOver Games 10.1.1 for Mac with support for Lion OS. Both versions of CrossOver are available immediately. CrossOver allows Windows applications and games to be played on Mac and Linux PCs without the need for a Windows operating system license.

In one of its most boring press releases in ages, CodeWeavers simply announced that, yes, its flagship CrossOver products now run on Apple’s much-anticipated Lion OS release. “There wasn’t much choice in the matter, now was there?” opined Jeremy White, CodeWeavers CEO. “I mean, if we don’t ship Lion support, we look like doofuses.”

Written by Tom Wickline
Wednesday, 22 June 2011 11:55

Today we’ll be talking with Tom Wickline, leader of the Bordeaux Technology Group, a company specialized in development of Windows compatibility software, supporting Linux, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, Solaris, OpenIndiana and Mac OS X.

TuxArena: Hello there Tom, thank you for being with us today.

You’re welcome – I always like talking about Wine and projects involved with Wine.

TuxArena: What is your position at Bordeaux? What other projects are you involved with?

My position at Bordeaux is release manager and public relations. I also help code the script parts of Bordeaux, a couple examples would be our custom winetricks script and our build script. As for other projects, I have a Wine centric news site that I run : Wine Reviews. I’m also an admin at Linux Gamers.

TuxArena: Please tell us, what is Bordeaux? How is it different from Wine, and what does it have in common with Wine?

Written by Tom Wickline
Tuesday, 03 May 2011 09:43

Finally, the Bible study software, SwordSearcher that is designed by Bible Believers for Bible Believers can run on your Mac or Linux system. You no longer have to miss out on the fast and powerful Bible search, the innovative verse guide technology and the huge reference library that only SwordSearcher has. Mac and Linux users now have all the fast, easy to use and comprehensive Bible study tools they need for effective Bible Study thanks to CrossOver.

How do I get SwordSeacher to work with Crossover?
First, go to the SwordSearcher website to download their free 30 day version or order the full version. Once you have a copy of the SwordSearcher software, watch our instructional video on how to run SwordSearcher on Mac with CrossOver. Once you have finished the watching our short video, try CrossOver for free. If you like it, be sure to come back to this page to purchase CrossOver at a 25% discounted rate.

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