News Wine looks to bring Windows apps to Android

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Originally Posted by Snips

So you're moaning at Microsoft for not porting it's Microsoft Office software onto a none Microsoft touch OS while it's busy developing and doing a damn fine job at it, it's own touch OS?

Good luck with that!

I don't know where you're getting this from.

I said the biggest benefit I could see to having Wine on Android is so that you can run MS Office on tablets (did I really need to clarify that I meant non-Microsoft tablets?).

Did I say that Microsoft should release Office on iOS or Android officially and criticise them for not doing so?
Did I say that Win8/WinRT/Surface/SurfacePro was rubbish or criticise it/them in any way?

If I'm moaning at all then I'm moaning about my posts being taken out of context or having words put in my mouth. Either respond to what I've actually said or stop trolling.

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Originally Posted by Gareth Halfacree

And how many of those are closed-source, commercial Windows packages? You know, the ones that are Windows exclusive, or Windows and Mac exclusive? Nobody would stick with an operating system because it runs Quake - especially as everything from a Texas Instruments calculator upwards can run Quake - but because it runs the full-fat version of Microsoft Office, or Adobe Photoshop, or Sage Line 50.

I specifically said "Windows applications" in my post, not "cross-platform, open-source applications." When they are available for Windows RT, I'll accept that it can "do everything Windows 8 can do." But the fact that it can be made to run OpenTDD does not invalidate my point.

I think that we are talking cross purposes about what it can technically do and what it is allowed to do. Windows RT is a full port of Windows (including the bugs). I think that locking it was a mistake; it eliminates the main reason for choosing it over other OS's. An ARM CPU would struggle with many, but certainly not all legacy software and the individual software publishers can make the choice as to what they port to ARM and what would be pointless to. Perhaps Microsoft will change its mind. Outlook being trialled for RT certainly suggests that there is a camp that thinks that way.