Windows Update under Wine

[tulcod]

Since the message of WGA running under wine, wine has seems very promising to me. I tried running WGA on my own pc, it didn't succeed, badly. About a month after the message of WGA under wine, I have, after updating wine to 0.9.40, tried running windows update under wine.

Most of you will only know windows update as the application which runs on your PC 24/7 and does some checks every now and then. But, there is also a webbased version, and it appears it can run on wine without any hassle after installing ies4linux.

The only thing i had to modify was the security level. Because i am too lazy to sort it out, i just set it to minimal (tools->internet options->security->security level for this zone->low)

Then, browse to http://update.microsoft.com/ , it didn't even ask anything, it just went on to installing two updates.

All this was done on Gentoo Linux (architecture mostly x86, wine and some other things ~x86).

http://arch.kimag.es/share/96526402.jpg

Wine sure is promising...

ps: let's see how fast this message reaches digg and slashdot

[budman7]

I'm a little confused, ok a lot confused.
Why would anyone want to do this?

[tulcod]

i have NO idea what the use of this is
but it works, that means activeX is correctly implemented in wine, which means that things like shockwave will work pretty nice too