Yes, Wine is a program that can run some and some only windows programs. IE is
free and MS is cool with it. Codeweavers is the mother program of Wine.
Codeweavers will run oodles of win apps, because Codeweavers pays fees to MS.
Thus not a free program. OK with that said.
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t-way
It runs slow at first and can be a bit buggy at times.