MSIX (was: Re: DuckDuckGo Browser Info?)

In message <[email protected]> at Wed, 19 Jun 2024 01:06:58, 
Paul <[email protected]> writes
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>That's a rather large download.
>
>https://staticcdn.duckduckgo.com/d5c04536-5379-4709-8d19-d13fdd456ff6/0.
>83.1.0/DuckDuckGo_0.83.1.0.msixbundle
>
>Name: DuckDuckGo_0.83.1.0.msixbundle
>Size: 898,246,025 bytes (856 MiB)        (The size of about 16 browsers)
>SHA256: 1079C0993F9006EF5BCDBEE5D34684A1F4E4EFF7C2D787B88FC682D12B3B96D1

Yes, more than a CDs worth!
>
>AV scan 2473 files, clean.
>
>There is a 400 meg x86 and a 400 meg x64 .msix installer inside. I check
>download files like this with 7ZIP file manager.
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>And there is this.
>
>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/msix-core-is-
>now-available/ba-p/1070885
>
>https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/msix-core/msixcore
>
>   What is MSIX Core?
>
>   MSIX Core enables the installation of MSIX apps on previous
>   versions of Windows, provided that the apps are already built
>   to work on those versions of Windows. MSIX Core is built for
>   the following Windows versions that don't currently natively support MSIX:
>
>    Windows 7 SP1
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Presumably MSIX is a downgraded version of MSI, similar to DOCX and XLSX 
versions of doc and xls. Presumably - if they've bothered to justify it 
at all - justified on security grounds: that's the default excuse for 
more or less anything, especially from Microsoft, these days.

Should we 7 users get this "MSIX Core", on the assumption that there'll 
be a time we need it - or is it more likely that "apps [that] are 
already built to work on those versions of Windows" will actually come 
with a MSI file anyway (if they've chosen that method, rather than .exe, 
of installing at all)?
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