I had read about Wine long, long ago. It is heartening to seem them finally dropping a BETA.

Check out http://www.winehq.org/

Wine is a fascinating project. It is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of the X and Unix platforms. This means that any Windows application can now run on Unix. They also have a program loader allowing Windows apps to run straight out on x86 systems. Cool stuff.

Check out http://appdb.winehq.org/ to see applications that have already run on Wine. Microsoft Money, Paint Shop Pro, several games, Internet Explorer, Dreamweaver, the list is endless.

With Microsoft Windows Services For Unix (which by the way took way less time to develop than the 12-year Wine project - I just had to say that!) and the Wine BETA release, can I dare to say that the desktop is almost unified?