Google hire Codeweavers to improve Wine support for Photoshop

Google has hired Codeweavers (makers of cross over) to "make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine".  There is much discussion on OSNews whether existing Linux alternatives to Photoshop are good enough, but for me the more interesting point of this story is the motivation for Google.  As tomcat notes, Google will hurt Microsoft by this move, but is this a wise strategy?  If Microsoft's core market of Windows and Windows applications disappears they will be forced to move more heavily into the networked applications space that Google currently dominates.

Read full story at the Google open source blog.