Wine 1.7.12 Brings Windows Media Player Interface Support

WineHQ team has announced the new development release version 1.7.12 with Windows Media Player interface support & 89 total bug-fixes. Along with the inclusion of Windows Media Player interface support, the new development version also includes many bug-fixing updates that include - more task scheduler support, Windows 8 API set support, C++ run-time fixes & the fix for problems which were encountered in applications like Capitalism II, Photoshop CS4, Eve-Online, Ubisoft game launcher, Counter Strike : Source, Multi Theft Auto (MTA) 1.3, A Strange Dream, Dracula 4, Divinity II, League Of Legends and 79 more.


Thanks to the WineHQ developers for excellent work of Pipelight in Launchpad which allow users to produce the content in Microsoft Silverlight directly from opensource browsers like Midori, Firefox & Chromium; helping users to view Netflix & Maxdome videos in Linux web browsers. Unfortunately, the latest development release didn't merged the patch-set for Command Stream Update, which comes with dynamic surface maps support that can be helpful to most popular game World Of Warcraft and many other games running on top of Wine.

WineHQ is an opensource project, which helps Linux users to install & run Windows application natively on Linux based distributions. For detailed information regarding latest changes in Wine development stack, read the WineHQ - Wine Announcement - The Wine development release 1.7.12 is now available..