Install Windows softwares on Linux

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If you are new to Linux , probably you will miss all those applications that you were using in Windows . Linux has lot of alternate freeware applications ,but not exactly likewise in Windows .Wine is a Linux application that can be used to install and run all most all Windows softwares on Linux platform.

Wine team used Windows API for creating an application that can run Windows softwares in Unix based Operating systems. Since the Windows API documentation was incomplete, Wine team had a tough time in making Windows softwares compatible with Linux .Now almost all Windows softwares including Microsoft ,Word , Photoshop etc . works perfectly with Wine desktop. Though it is wrote for Linux , Wine is well maintained to work with MAC OS X ,Solaris and other similar platforms .

Microsoft office 2007 on Linux using Wine

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I will add more informations on the installation procedures of Windows softwares like Internet explorer , Google chrome ,MS office etc. on Ubuntu Linux , in the upcoming posts .

Wine installation and features are available at the official website of Wine .
Download Wine and install WIndows softwares on Linux .

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