When you think Microsoft you probably don't think sense of humor. And yet, I'm convinced that Microsoft is going to do a very specific *very* funny thing within our lifetimes.
Yeah, that’s fine for handling some stuff, but there are some very old applications still in use that were coded by a programmer who died twenty years ago who counted on Windows bugs. A lot of companies refuse to spend the money to upgrade or replace those systems, and so Microsoft has maintained compatibility for them ever since. Wine hasn’t reached full parity for those bugs, at least so far.
The key word being so far. A company like Microsoft would be able to ramp up wine development substantially, if they decided to. If I’m not mistaken, these very old legacy 16 and 32 bit apps have to be run on emulators running old versions of windows anyways - in these cases the OS running the emulator doesn’t matter anyways.
They would keep backup compatibility using wine. Well, at least sort of.
Yeah, that’s fine for handling some stuff, but there are some very old applications still in use that were coded by a programmer who died twenty years ago who counted on Windows bugs. A lot of companies refuse to spend the money to upgrade or replace those systems, and so Microsoft has maintained compatibility for them ever since. Wine hasn’t reached full parity for those bugs, at least so far.
The key word being so far. A company like Microsoft would be able to ramp up wine development substantially, if they decided to. If I’m not mistaken, these very old legacy 16 and 32 bit apps have to be run on emulators running old versions of windows anyways - in these cases the OS running the emulator doesn’t matter anyways.