{"id":815,"date":"2025-08-11T23:09:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:24:55","slug":"installaware-launches-project-os-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"InstallAware Launches Project OS\/3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is Project <strong>OS\/3<\/strong> for <strong><em>Linux<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>macOS<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; <strong>A one-click wizard that takes as input any Windows setup, and outputs a Linux and macOS setup.<\/strong><br>&#8211; This setup pre-installs Wine (graphically, without ever dumping your end-user to the command line).<br>&#8211; It then installs your application on your target instance of Wine, and wraps up creating app shortcuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you basically have a point-and-click workflow to run all your Windows apps on Linux and macOS &#8211; today &#8211; without so much as a recompile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How is this different from Wine, which already runs Windows apps on Linux and macOS?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of compatibility problems in Wine arise during the setup process. Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> is uniquely equipped to solve this problem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Install<strong>Aware<\/strong><strong><em>Studio Admin<\/em><\/strong> X17&#8217;s Package<strong>Aware<\/strong> ingests your Windows setup into an Install<strong>Aware<\/strong> project.<br>&#8211; The Project <strong>OS\/3<\/strong> Wizard converts this project to Install<strong>Aware<\/strong><strong><em>Multi Platform<\/em><\/strong>, adding the Wine runtime.<br>&#8211; Install<strong>Aware<\/strong><strong><em>Multi Platform<\/em><\/strong> 2025&#8217;s native code setup engine <strong>directly injects your app into a Wine layer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>With the declining market share of Windows, now is the time to make your move to Linux and macOS!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Project OS\/3 for Linux and macOS? &#8211; A one-click wizard that takes as input any Windows setup, and outputs a Linux and macOS setup.&#8211; This setup pre-installs Wine (graphically, without ever dumping your end-user to the command line).&#8211; It then installs your application on your target instance of Wine, and wraps up creating &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;InstallAware Launches Project OS\/3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}