Re: MSIX
Newyana2 <[email protected]>
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On 6/19/2024 10:20 AM, Paul wrote:
>
> "Microsoft has been touting MSIX for two years now and despite the
> tremendous benefits the new packaging format brings, it seems like
> neither software vendors or end-user enterprises have really embraced it yet."
>
The same was true with MSIs. They're meant to standardize installs,
but it's monstrously complex. Also, some software developers don't like
their installers being able to be dismantled. I've even seen MSIs
that just unpack a traditional installer to TEMP.
The result is that MSIs are typically used by big companies
who put both MSI and EXE on their download page. The former
is for corporate admins who want the MSI functionality and/or
do whatever MS tells them to do.