It used to be that running Windows programs on a Mac was a slow, painful process. There was only one option: running Virtual PC emulation software. But with Apple Computer's shift to Intel chips, the ...

These days, switching from a PC to a Mac is a relatively painless process. However, there are still times when you might like to play a game that is only available on Windows or access a work ...

The Wine project has been letting folks run some Windows applications on Unix-like operating systems including Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD for decades… and a few years ago, the developers of this open ...

Mac/Linux: Wine has long been the best free, open source tool for running Windows apps on Mac and Linux. Today, it has finally hitting version 2.0, bringing along support for Microsoft Office 2013, 64 ...

Linux users who want to run Windows applications without switching operating systems have been able to do so for years with Wine, software that lets apps designed for Windows run on Unix-like systems.

Mac only: Wine has always been popular among Linux users for running Windows programs, but Wine is available for Mac, too—and now, free utility WineBottler can "bottle" Windows programs into separate ...

The open-source tool Whisky is losing its main developer: Whisky will no longer receive any further functional updates, as the developer Isaac Marovitz has announced. There will therefore be no more ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. It used to be that running Windows programs on a Mac was ...