WINE is an Open Source project began many years ago to allow UNIX users to run Windows applications natively on their own operating systems. It duplicates the Windows API without ever using any Windows code, actually offering better backwards compatibility than Windows XP! The problem for Mac users up until now is that it uses direct commands to the X86 (i.e. Intel) CPUS, so it was not useable under PowerPC. Well, now that Macs are running on Intel chips (don't know if I'll ever be able to write that without shuddering), WINE is running on MacOS X!
The link is an early alpha build, so this is not ready for the average user yet. But it shows immense promise. WINE runs Windows applications as though they were native applications (like the old dream of the Red Box), offering Mac-like experience on Windows apps. Very cool. The only concern is if it drives developers off the Mac platform because "Mac users can run my Windows apps, anyway".
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