2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Running Microsoft Office Under Ubuntu
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The title of this chapter might sound somewhat strange. How can a Windows program be run under Linux? The answer comes courtesy of the Wine project and the set of add-on programs it offers for Linux. Wine is an acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator, which is a way of saying that the Wine software doesn’t emulate Windows but instead re-creates certain parts of it called the Application Programming Interface (API).