Wine (Wine is not an emulator) 1.7.55 is now out, and it comes with quite a few major fixes that are sure to draw some serious attention.

The Wine development release 1.7.55 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• Pulse audio driver.
• Various fixes for Microsoft Office 2013 support.
• Some more implementation of the Web Services DLL.
• More fixes for the latest C runtime version.
• Improvements to the Makefile generation.
• Various bug fixes.

Ubuntu setup:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine