Re: MSIX

In message <[email protected]> at Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:20:04, 
Paul <[email protected]> writes
>On 6/19/2024 3:19 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>
>>
>> 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)?
>
>Some day it will be a collectors item, and worth 5p :-)
>
(-:! [And I always thought you were in US. 5p suggests UK!] Yes, from 
what you say subsequently, I don't think I'll bother with it!
>*******
>
>https://blog.juriba.com/msix-why-enterprises-arent-yet-banking-on-the-fu
>ture-of-app-packaging
>
>   "Microsoft has been touting MSIX for two years now and despite the
>    tremendous benefits the new packaging format brings, it seems like

Other than security matters (and I'm always dubious about those - 
practicing safe hex and running Windows 7 I think keeps me fairly immune 
- famous last words, I know), what are these "tremendous benefits"?

>    neither software vendors or end-user enterprises have really 
>embraced it yet."
>
>"Just the novelty of a square wheel, should have you convinced"

Indeed!
>
>I have a copy on disk, unused presumably.
>
>    Paul
(-:
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