Wine 1.9.9 Fixes More Skype, Photoshop CC 2015 and Microsoft Office 2007 Bugs

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, April 29, 2019, the Wine development team has released the ninth milestone towards the Wine 2.0 open-source implementation of Windows on Unix, Wine 1.9.9, bringing various fixes and improvements to more Windows apps and games.

According to the release notes, prominent features in Wine 1.9.9 include additional improvements to the WineD3D command stream, the addition of service proxies in WebServices, query support in the built-in reg.exe utility, enhanced support for long URLs in WinInet, as well as fixes for a total of 38 issues since Wine 1.9.8.

Among the 38 bug fixes, we can’t help but notice that more Windows applications now work better in Wine, so you can install and use them on your GNU/Linux box without hiccups. Besides the Windows apps that received improvements in Wine 1.9.9 (we’ve compiled a list below for your reading pleasure), many Windows games also work better.

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