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On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:28:08 -0500
> nmeyers at javalinux.net wrote:
>
>> The last time I tried to install MSIE under WINE, the installer balked
>> on some compatibility check - I was apparently attempting to bypass a
>> license that limited MSIE to running only under real MS installations.
>> I think that was sometime in the past year... perhaps something has
>> changed since then.
> I've had MSIE installed under crossover office for years. I rarely use
> it, but it does work.

Just as a warning to anyone using crossover office or wine right now, it 
was recently announced that both are vulnerable to the Windows WMF 
vulnerability that Microsoft had been scrambling over last week.

I'm not sure if they've released patches for Wine yet, but it's worth 
looking into.