Editing Wine (software) (section)

===Microsoft===
Until 2020, [[Microsoft]] had not made any public statements about Wine. However, the [[Windows Update]] online service will block updates to Microsoft applications running in Wine. On 16 February 2005, Ivan Leo Puoti discovered that Microsoft had started checking the [[Windows Registry]] for the Wine configuration key and would block the Windows Update for any component.<ref>{{cite mailing list
 |first        = Ivan Leo
 |last         = Puoti
 |url          = https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2005-February/033868.html
 |title        = Microsoft genuine downloads looking for Wine
 |date         = 18 February 2005
 |mailing-list = wine-devel
 |access-date  = 23 January 2006
 |archive-date = 7 April 2009
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090407002920/http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2005-February/033868.html
 |url-status   = live
}}</ref> As Puoti noted: "It's also the first time Microsoft acknowledges the existence of Wine."

In January 2020, Microsoft cited Wine as a positive consequence of being able to reimplement APIs, in its [[amicus curiae]] brief for ''[[Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.]]''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tung|first=Liam|title=Wine for running Windows 10 apps on Linux gets big upgrade|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/wine-for-running-windows-10-apps-on-linux-gets-big-upgrade/|access-date=26 November 2020|website=ZDNet|language=en|archive-date=25 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025165041/https://www.zdnet.com/article/wine-for-running-windows-10-apps-on-linux-gets-big-upgrade/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In August 2024, Microsoft donated the [[Mono (software)|Mono Project]], a reimplementation of the [[.NET Framework]], to the developers of Wine.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larabie |first=Michael |date=27 August 2024 |title=Microsoft Offloads The Mono Project To Wine |url=https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Gives-Mono-To-Wine |access-date=28 August 2024 |website=[[Phoronix]]}}</ref>