This is certainly great news for the Linux community!
With Google's help the future for Wine looks pretty bright..
If it just could get a bit better on games I would drop Windows (almost) completely and just use Linux, at least for office work, programming and surfing..
Quote:
Google software engineer Dan Kegel posted a message to the Wine mailing list last week describing some of the improvements to Wine that Google has sponsored in the past year. These improvements, says Kegel, have substantially improved the Linux compatibility of several popular commercial software applications, including Adobe Photoshop and Dragon Naturally Speaking.
Wine is an open-source Windows binary runtime compatibility layer that enables users to run some native Windows applications on Linux and other operating systems with varying degrees of success. Running applications through Wine generally provides a suboptimal experience compared to running the same applications on Windows, but it often works well enough to make it a viable solution for many users.
Photoshop is widely regarded as the industry standard for professional raster graphic editing, and the lack of Photoshop support on the Linux platform has been significant impediment to Linux adoption in the graphic artist community. Graphic artists have found cross-platform open-source alternatives like GIMP to be inadequate because they lack key features, such as native CMYK support. Lack of support for commercial-grade voice recognition software on the Linux platform is problematic for users with disabilities who depend on such software to accommodate their special needs. Enabling users to run these programs on Linux through Wine eradicates some of the barriers that are deterring migration to the open-source operating system
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...rovements.html
Copy of the message on the Wine mailing list:
http://winehq.org/pipermail/wine-dev...ry/062550.html
