Comment One useful area for this... (Score 1) 2
...is support for old Windows apps esp VB6.0 apps that run really poorly on Win 7 let alone Win 8.x. I've found several that run fine on Wine on Linux that no longer run on MSFT Windows and Microsoft is not interested in fixing this at all.
Some LoB (line of business) applications created by non-IT groups in companies depend on old app binaries that "work" and have no interest in updating the code or the operating environments they run in and in fact, dread the continual change in MSFT OSes over the years, because these apps get broken when driver support stops for that OS and can't always be run in ritualized VMs with legacy operating systems.
MSFT thinks everybody loves programming and always wants to rewrite their apps in the latest language ( C# right now) for the latest OS API and GUI ( WinRT formerly modern, formerly metro) but the parts of a business that are NOT Information Technology don't like development - they have product to make, sell, ship and bill for.
So Wine on volume Android devices may be the answer for those LoBs.