Cross-platform interoperability importance to fade

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 30, 2010 12:08 PM EDT
ZDNet Asia ; By Victoria Ho
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Cross-platform efforts to provide interoperability with Windows on Linux systems may cease to be of importance in future as the acceptance of alternative OSes widens, say industry watchers. Linux users have relied on various methods to access Windows programs, one of which is the Wine project. The open source effort offers users a way of running some Windows programs by providing a substitute layer that encompasses APIs (application programming interfaces) and DLLs (dynamic-link libraries) for the Windows kernel.

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