Editing Wine (software) (section)

===Microsoft applications===
Wine, by default, uses specialized Windows builds of [[Gecko (software)|Gecko]] and [[Mono (software)|Mono]] to substitute for Microsoft's [[Internet Explorer]] and [[.NET Framework]]. Wine has built-in implementations of [[JScript]] and [[VBScript]]. It is possible to download and run Microsoft's installers for those programs through winetricks or manually.

Wine is not known to have good support for most versions of Internet Explorer (IE). Of all the reasonably recent versions, Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP is the only version that reports a usable rating on Wine's AppDB, out-of-the-box.<ref>{{cite web |title=Internet Explorer |url=https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=25 |website=WineHQ AppDB |access-date=23 April 2019 |archive-date=13 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413195444/https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=25 |url-status=live }}</ref> However [[Google Chrome]] gets a gold rating (as of Wine 5.5-staging),<ref>{{cite web |title=Google Chrome |url=https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=8177 |website=WineHQ AppDB |access-date=9 September 2020 |archive-date=13 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913172130/https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=8177 |url-status=live }}</ref> and Microsoft's IE replacement web browser Edge, is known to be based on that browser (after switching from Microsoft's own rendering engine<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chromium browsers are black - WineHQ Forums|url=https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=33455&p=126413|access-date=9 September 2020|website=forum.winehq.org|archive-date=15 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615171028/https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=33455&p=126413|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- with "winetricks -q dxvk vd=1280x1024" I see response "I got it working, thank you!", unclear if applies to Edge or only Chrome, as question was "When I tried to install Microsoft Edge on Chromium, it was completly back. I also tried Google Chrome"   https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=19516 -->). Winetricks offer auto-installation for Internet Explorer 6 through 8, so these versions can be reasonably expected to work with its built-in workarounds.

An alternative for installing Internet Explorer directly is to use the now-defunct [[IEs4Linux]]. It is not compatible with the latest versions of Wine,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2012-June/261480.html |title=So far, I do not manage to install IES4Linux |date=22 June 2012 |access-date=15 January 2014 |archive-date=15 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140815155020/https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2012-June/261480.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and the development of IEs4Linux is inactive.