Wine 1.1.0 is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris. Wine 1.1.0 has the following changes:

• Many more gdiplus functions implemented.
• Improved graphics tablet support.
• Many Richedit fixes and improvements.
• Support for HWND_MESSAGE windows.
• A lot of new MSHTML functions.
• Many fixes in MSI registry handling.
• Initial implementation of the inetmib1 DLL.
• Improvements to the quartz renderers.
• Various bug fixes.