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Contributions to Wine

Since late 1999, CodeWeavers has put substantial energy and effort into improving the Wine Project. Wine is the heart and soul of our company. A bedrock of our mission is to continually improve the capabilities of the Wine project, so that the world can have an alternate source of the Windows APIs and thereby gain more freedom of choice.

To that end, we not only contribute all of our work on Wine back to the Wine project under a Free Software License, we also support many key Wine developers and many of the critical R&D initiatives that Wine needs in order to grow into the technology that it needs to be.

Some of our notable accomplishments include:

  1. Made Wine work with Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Lotus Notes, Quicken, iTunes and many more applications
  2. Made Wine work across a variety of platforms, notably the Intel Macintosh
  3. Provide web hosting and technical support for the Wine Project website, www.winehq.org.
  4. Organized the annual Wine technical conference.
  5. Made Wine work with QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Shockwave, and many more browser plugins
  6. Major work on D3D support.
  7. Support for safedisc and other copy protection software.
  8. Established a substantial resource for Windows compatibility testing
  9. Fully-featured COM and improved OLE support
  10. Wine Bugs Database
  11. Wine Application Database
  12. WineHQ Redesign
  13. Wine Documentation
  14. Winemaker, or making Winelib actually useful
  15. Implemented a Microsoft Installer service
  16. Completely revamped the Wine/X11 Window Manager integration
  17. Easy to use Configuration
  18. Address Space Separation
  19. Unicode/code pages support
  20. Dramatic window management revision
  21. Shared Window handles
  22. Most of the DLL separation work
  23. Debugging API
  24. Tablet support
  25. MSI Support
  26. Implementation of DCE/RPC
  27. Lots of work on the common controls
  28. About a gazillion bug fixes
  29. Making many more installers work

All of these improvements were made and released back into the main Wine tree, thereby dramatically improving the quality of the Wine Project overall.

We at CodeWeavers recognize that we have only been able to sustain this work because of the support we have received from our customers, and so, indirectly, it is our customers that have brought all of these wonderful contributions to Wine. Thanks, folks.