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> all the versions of Wine still haven't solved the problem, even after 20 years.

Wine isn't Microsoft, and doesn't have access to Windows internal code. If Microsoft decided to write a Windows compatibility layer for non-Windows OSes, it wouldn't have to reverse-engineer. That is an immense difference in terms of amount of effort.



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