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[News] Microsoft's Linux overture: More sizzle, less steak

Microsoft's Linux overture: More sizzle, less steak

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| While Microsoft is making sudden overtures to Linux users, the
| open-source community has long been interested in helping bridge the
| divide. About 10 years ago, a number of developers started a project
| called Wine, in which they rewrote raw source code in a language called
| C that, in a sense, cloned Windows 3.x and Win32 application programming
| interfaces so that they could be run on Unix computers. Mr. Leibovitch
| says as Windows has evolved, Wine is still progressing -- but not with
| any help from Microsoft.
| 
| "They've done a pretty good job, especially on the server side," he
| says. "The problem is there are so many undocumented things about
| the Microsoft environment, it's a moving target."
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