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Old 5th July 2009
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At 4.5, emulators/wine is from 1999, and is effectively unusable.

For the upcoming 4.6, emulators/wine will be version 1.1.21. The description says:
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It is still Alpha quality, i.e. don't expect it to run your typical large
MS-Windows application package...
I have not tried this version of Wine, but based on that description I would not expect either IE or Skype to run under this port of Wine. You could experiment with wine now by installing -current.
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While you could run Windows under qemu, the CPU you're looking at using might not give useful performance for desktop use. (kqemu is available, and might provide some performance gain, but may also introduce instability -- crashing not just the virtual machine, but OpenBSD as well.)
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Dual boot should be considered. I have a laptop with triple-boot (OpenBSD/W2K/Ubuntu). A bootloader like GAG simplifies operation and management.
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