Application portability software developer CodeWeavers has ported a version of Google's Chrome Web browser to Mac OS X and Linux and made the software available for free.
Adobe has released an alpha version of AIR on Linux and announced that it is joining the Linux Foundation.
Google is funding work to ensure that Adobe Systems' Photoshop and other Creative Suite software will run on Linux.
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.
The latest version of Xandros desktop Linux has arrived, continuing the operating system's mission to welcome Windows users -- a mission that's led some in the Linux community to dismiss it as "Linux with training wheels."
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Lycoris has released an add-on for its desktop version of Linux that lets Microsoft applications run without the need to pay for a Windows software licence.
Sun Microsystems plans to release the second version of its Java Desktop System, the server maker's version of Linux for desktop computers.
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The software maker introduces a version of Linux aimed at enterprise customers, hoping to move the open-source software beyond servers and low-cost PCs.
A new consortium aims to make Linux more usable for consumers - and draw the spotlight away from a business rival.
SuSE plans to announce in January an effort to bring the open-source Linux operating system to desktop computers, an attack on Microsoft that will be bolder than similar initiatives from Red Hat and Sun Microsystems.
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