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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?
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(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday January 26 2017, @11:17PM
Even if you regularly use a native Windows install Wine is still useful. I once even attempted (unsuccessfully) to get Wine running on native Windows -- because there's a lot of old Windows apps that Wine will still run, but modern versions of Windows won't (And I'm including XP as "modern", and yes I've tried all the "comparability mode" settings which as far as I can tell do more harm than good). Sure, you could go try to pirate a Win9x copy and hope it's clean and fire it up in a VM, but why bother with all of that when it works just as well -- if not better (acts like a native app) in Wine?
I haven't installed a Windows VM in a few years. I used Wine just last night. VMs are great for servers, but for desktop use they're still pretty awful. If you really have absolutely no other choice they'll get the job done, but if you can use something like Wine you'll undoubtedly have a better experience. It's got better compatibility, better hardware access, and you don't have to jump through hoops if you need to share files with the host system.