The Wine team has announced that version 2.0 of the Windows compatibility layer has been released.
The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the 64-bit support on macOS.
[...] 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.
Do any soylentils still rely on Wine for that one irreplaceable application?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @02:48AM
I started using Office '97 when a customer demanded it...in 1998
Have you tried those documents using a FOSS app?
Is there something about the gratis and libre stuff that hasn't achieved compatibility with the 20 year old proprietary app?
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @04:10AM
> Is there something about the gratis and libre stuff that hasn't achieved compatibility with the 20 year old proprietary app?
Yes, layered figures often display incorrectly, missing layers. This is true for .doc files created on Word which I try to open with Open Office. These are engineering figures pasted in from Matlab, sometimes they have many thousands of data points (100K?--I haven't counted, but redisplay in Word can take a second or two). Don't ask me, the customer wants it this way.
Our 1998 customer insisted we use MathType (add-in to Word) for equations with picky formatting. The built-in MS-Equation Editor is a limited version of MathType, both from the same supplier. Word isn't perfectly compatible between versions, so it's just easier to stick with one version. By now I have internalized work-arounds for the problems/bugs that I used to have with Word-97.
I just read a comment above that Libre Office might be better and I'll be trying that at some point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @07:22AM
OpenOffice has been dead since the Oracle acquisition of SUN.
Try LibreOfiice, which is the fork where the development has been happening for the last 5 (10?) years.
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday January 26 2017, @08:44AM
20 year too late, but I heard LaTeX is good for equations (I normally used a GUI called "lyx": a "What you see is what you mean" editor.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday January 27 2017, @09:59AM
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