Web Application Installer for Vista RTM/SP1
Hot on the heels of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta comes the Microsoft Web Applications Installer.
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16.10.2008 Web Application Installer for Vista RTM/SP1
Hot on the heels of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta comes the Microsoft Web Applications Installer.
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16.10.2008 Vista BootMgr Installer
Steve Jobs prepare next great article for us on his blog: The following has been created by Keznews member Nightthief to make it easier for people to use the Vista BootManager crack. It is the first installer based on VistaBoot!
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28.5.2007 Windows Installer 4.5 for XP SP3 and Vista SP1
Microsoft has made available for download a new version of the Windows Installer Redistributable package on June 2, 2008.
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3.6.2008 The mythical Vista application
I love analysts. Whether it's predicting tomorrow's next big thing or sounding the death knell for yesterday's industry pacesetter, analysts never run out of new ways to get it wrong.
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27.6.2008 How To Manage Windows Vista Application Compatibility
Migrating to Vista means big changes in application support. Will your applications work in Vista? Here are some strategies and tools to mitigate the impact of moving to the new OS.
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17.4.2007 My Expose - cool OS X application for Vista
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this download. My Expose - Apple EXPOSE! from OS X Expose for Vista and its for free.
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7.5.2007 Top 6 Vista Application Incompatibility Reasons
Application incompatibility is one of the aspects that have managed to deliver extensive damage to the adoption rate of Windows Vista.
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24.5.2008 Vista SP1 Application Compatibility Update Fixes Black Screens of Death
With the release of the gold version of Service Pack 1, but also with the maturing of the software and hardware environment orbiting around the Windows client, Windows Vista's compatibility level has continually increased.
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14.8.2008 Death of the apps installer?
One of the great bugbears for developers is the issue of fitting their splendid new applications code to the requirements demanded by applications installers. But could this be about to disappear as a problem? According to David Greschler, co-founder and VP of corporate marketing with Softricity, the answer is a soundly political ?maybe?.
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24.4.2006 Advanced Installer Professional 4.9
Advanced Installer Professional is a Windows Installer authoring tool which enables developers and system administrators to easily build reliable MSI packages.
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5.4.2007 Windows Installer 4.5 for Vista SP2, 5.0 for Windows 7
In June 2008, Microsoft released Windows Installer 4.5 on the Microsoft Download Center for XP SP2+, Server 2003 SP1+, Vista, and Server 2008.
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29.1.2009 Windows Live Installer 12.0.1471.1025
Windows Live is a new set of services that brings your online world together.
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7.11.2007 BitTorrent Buys uTorrent Application
BitTorrent, the company behind the file sharing protocol of the same name, has used some of the $25 million it recently received from investors to purchase the popular uTorrent application.
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8.12.2006 Google Apps to Get Presentation Application
Google will add a presentation application to its Google Apps lineup by year-end, and possibly could add other applications to that suite.
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15.6.2007 Microsoft Application Verifier v3.4 Available
Application Verifier is a runtime verification tool for unmanaged code that assists in quickly finding subtle programming errors that can be extremely difficult to identify with normal application testing. Thanks to pacpis for this download.
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2.9.2007 More Application Compatibility Resources for Windows 7
There are a number of efforts going on to help organize application compatibility for Windows 7, in or ongoing effort to improve in this space.
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14.9.2009 Application Development Security Guidance for .NET 2.0
Summary - This page explains the rationale behind the patterns & practices Security Guidance for .NET Framework 2.0 project and provides an index into the guidance. You can use the guidance referenced on this page to improve both the security of your applications and your approach to building secure applications.
Overview - The purpose of this project is to provide world-class security guidance for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 centered on the following themes: Security engineering, Application scenarios, Technical guidance
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Windows Application Specific Glass Colorization?
Microsoft might be introducing application specific glass renderings. The color of the glass frame around a window can be changed in Vista, but the change is global to the system.
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6.9.2008 Microsoft to eventually make Office a web application
Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till last. A "Microsoft insider" was asked which other products and services Microsoft would host and the reply was: "Everything. Hosted Office. Everything hosted."
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Microsoft Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino Beta
Overview
The Microsoft Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Notes/Domino is a tool that is used to help size and scope a Lotus Notes/Domino application migration project. The tool will analyze Lotus Domino applications, provide reports about application characteristics and recommend possible target solutions on the Microsoft Collaboration Platform.
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16.1.2006 The next generation of Microsoft application building and Web authoring tools
What are these new tools?
The Microsoft Office and Server & Tools teams are proud to announce the introduction of two great new tools for application building and Web authoring in 2006.
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11.4.2006 Microsoft Security Advisory 927891 non security-Fix for Windows Installer
Ok this is the MSI fix (Windows Update Client 100%CPU issue) as discussed before here on Bink.nu. For best results also install the new update client . This client will be distributed worldwide in June through Microsoft/Windows Update and WSUS.
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23.5.2007 Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer.
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19.1.2009 Microsoft Windows Microsoft Application Verifier 3.2.0038
Application Verifier is a runtime verification tool for unmanaged code that assists in quickly finding subtle programming errors that can be extremely difficult to identify with normal application testing.
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26.7.2006 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009Windows Installer 4.5 for Vista SP2, 5.0 for Windows 7
In June 2008, Microsoft
released Windows Installer 4.5 on the Microsoft Download Center for XP SP2+, Server 2003 SP1+, Vista, and Server 2008. Now, with yesterday's release
of the
SP2 RC-Escrow
build, it has been confirmed that the new version will also be bundled with the second service pack for Vista and Server 2008.
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29.01.2009Windows Installer 4.5 Redistributable
The Microsoft® Windows® Installer (MSI) is the application installation and configuration service for Windows. Version 4.5 of the Windows Installer
has several new features, including:
Multiple Package Transaction: In a multiple package transaction, you can create a single
transaction from multiple packages. In a multiple package transaction, a chainer is used to dynamically include packages in the transaction. If any of
the packages do not install as expected, you can roll back the installation.
Embedded UI Handler: You can embed a custom user
interface (UI) handler in the Windows Installer package. This makes a custom UI easier to integrate. You can also invoke an embedded UI handler from
the Add or Remove item in Control Panel. Or, you can invoke an embedded UI handler during a Windows Installer repair process.
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03.06.2008A Warning About the Windows Vista SP1 Beta Standalone Installer
Robert McLaws: By now you're aware that the Windows Vista SP1 Beta has been released to beta testers for a thorough shakedown. I just wanted to give
anyone who still has UAC on a bit of warning. If you right-click the installer and select "Run as Administrator" first, then it won't take nearly
as long to extract the files. Otherwise, it takes almost 15 minutes just to fail thrugh the copy the first time, until you finally get the UAC
dialog.
Also, be aware that, while it says it can take up to 30 minutes, it's closer to an hour, and it will restart 3 or 4
times in the process (checking the box at the beginning is definitely advised). I've been running SP1 on my main machine for a few hours now, and it
seems to be pretty stable. I'll have more on this later.
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25.09.2007Windows Installer 4.5 Beta Accepting Nominations
The Windows Installer team has
unleashed the beta program for
Windows Installer 4.5 on
Microsoft Connect. Anyone
interested can sign up,
provided they have a Windows
Live ID tied to Microsoft
Connect - there is no survey
to fill out. " Windows
Installer 4.5 will provide
targeted features for
multi-package products and
advanced servicing. Windows
Installer 4.5 will be
delivered down level to
Windows XP SP2 and above. This
down level update will include
the operating system
independent features and fixes
from the Windows Vista only
release, Windows Installer
4.0 ." There is supposed
to be a draft paper entitled
"Agility Trends in Package
Software" which discusses the
problems the team is targeting
with the Windows Installer 4.5
release but at the time of
posting the link seems to be
dead.
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25.06.2007GNUstep Windows Installer
The
GNUstep Windows installer is based on the MinGW system and
consists of the basic MSYS and MinGW libraries, other library dependancies and the GNUstep Core packages (gnustep-make, gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, and
gnustep-back). The installer installs GNUstep onto most varieties of Windows (see below for tested installations) and sets up the computer to make it
easy to run GNUstep applications. It is based on the NSIS installer.
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25.12.2007Newest Windows Installer will enable multiple package installs
Managing a massive Windows installation has already been likened to administering a colossal database. Today, Microsoft added new functions to its
Installer for setup packages, that really does start treating Windows like one...
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04.06.2008Windows Installer 4.5 Released
The Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) is the application installation and configuration service for Windows. Version 4.5 of the Windows Installer
has several new features, including:
Multiple Package Transaction
Embedded UI Handler
Embedded Chainer
Update
Supersedence Resiliency
Shared Component Patching Resiliency During Uninstall
Custom Action Execution On Update Uninstall
After
installation of this package, the version of Windows Installer on the system will be upgraded to 4.5.
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04.06.2008What Windows platforms will Windows Installer 4.5 ship in?
Our friends at InstallShield had some questions about schedule and platforms. One of those questions was:
Question:
What Windows platforms will Windows Installer ship in?
Answer:
Windows Installer 4.5 will initially ship as a
Windows redistributable component via download center. At RTM, redistributable packages will support installing to Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows
Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Windows Vista RTM and SP1, and Windows Server 2008. These redistributable packages will support the three CPU architectures
Windows to which these platforms ship: x86, x64, and ia64. These choices for platform support are consistent with the
Windows Service Pack road map...
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01.09.2007Debugging a Per-User Installation Error on Windows Vista
Chris Jackson: Yesterday, a friend asked for some assistance debugging an issue with Windows Installer. It was one of those situations where you've
looked at the problem so closely, so many times, that you just needed another set of eyes. (They're close to shipping, so they've been doing nothing
but look at bugs, probably for a while.)
Some background:
What they're doing is a rather interesting use of
Windows Installer. They're using it to drop a setup.exe and then run it. So, they have a custom action of type 0xC02, which is a deferred custom
action, promoted to not use impersonation, which runs as an exe. This custom action spawns another version of itself (with different arguments), and
then the process exits so the installer can complete. The second version of this custom action then wants to uninstall the msi, as well as launch the
setup.exe. So, the msi is just a way to package up the setup.exe.
And, with UAC, it was breaking.
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25.10.2007Upcoming Vista Application Compatibility Webcasts
I wanted to let everyone know that we are putting on bunch of application compatibility webcasts over the next few months and this is a great way to
learn how to resolve some of the application compatibility issues you might be seeing in your Vista testing...
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27.03.2008How to sign up for the Windows Installer 4.5 beta program
I just noticed a set of steps that have been posted on the
Windows Installer team blog that can be used to sign up for the Windows Installer 4.5 beta. If you are interested in trying out
this beta and haven't signed up yet, I encourage you to check out
this post for more information.
Currently, signing up for the 4.5 beta will allow you to access some
white papers about agility in software packaging and how Windows Installer 4.5 can help achieve agility goals. In addition,
according to
this post, the Windows Installer 4.5 beta will be available for download "any day now" to members of the beta program.
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23.08.2007Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer (beta) is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web
Platform, including the IIS7, SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer.
Developers and server administrators
can use the Web Platform Installer Beta to more easily discover, download and install the Microsoft Web platform. Using the Web Platform Installers
simple user interface, you can select specific components or install the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer easily and quickly. To help
you stay up-to-date with product releases, the Web Platform Installer tool always contains the most current versions and new additions to the
Microsoft Web Platform.
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30.09.2008Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows
Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer. Enthusiast Chris Holmes claims that many users have started experiencing random
crashing of explorer and msiexec.exe when trying to start Windows Update or install anything that uses an MSI based installer. Some have gone to the
extent of reinstalling the beta. Rafael has discovered that the fault arises from the Software Quality Management (SQM) Client which is a part of the
Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP).
Read full story.....
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20.01.2009Cydia Store goes online with paid apps
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Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta
The Web Platform Installer (WebPI) is a simplified download/install experience for all of Microsofts free web products. It includes everything that
you need to get up and running to build your web solutions from servers, tools, and technologies, including the most recently updated products.
winbeta.org - 13.04.2009
Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PCs
Brandon LeBlanc: Today Nick announced the availability of the release candidate for Windows Vista SP1. I had a chance to get the RC build of Windows
Vista SP1 installed a few days ago. I decided to roll the RC out on all of my PCs which showcase a variety of device types and scenarios:
- My Main Desktop PC running Windows Vista Ultimate x64 - check.
- My Test/Work PC running Windows Vista Business - check.
- My Dell Vostro 1500 Laptop running Windows Vista Ultimate - check.
- My Samsung Q1 UMPC running Windows Vista Home Premium - check.
- My Digital CableCard PC running Windows Vista Home Premium - check.
In installing the RC on my PCs, I did a combination of
using the standalone installer and Windows Update. Before proceeding to install the SP1 RC bits, I first needed to uninstall the SP1 beta bits first.
Users looking to install the Windows Vista SP1 RC will need to uninstall any previous version of SP1 prior to the installation of the RC from either
Windows Update or the standalone installer.
winbeta.org - 06.12.2007
Windows Vista Application Compatibility Downloadable List for IT Professionals
The Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals is a Microsoft Office Excel-based spreadsheet containing software applications which have
earned the status of Certified for Windows Vista or Works with Windows Vista.
Additionally, this list contains applications
with a status of Compatible. "Compatible means that the application has been reported by the publisher as compatible with, or supported on,
Windows Vista. These applications have not gone through the Microsoft Windows Vista Logo Program.
The Application Compatibility
List for IT Professionals is current as of July 31,2008 and published as of the Date Published, noted in Quick Details, above.
winbeta.org - 09.10.2008
Vista Application Compatibility Kit Out
Although Windows Vista
officially launched for
businesses back in November,
Microsoft waited until today
to release the final version
of its Application
Compatibility Toolkit for the
new operating system. The
software is designed to
diagnose any potential
problems that may arise from
upgrading...
betanews.com - 31.01.2007
Whats coming with Windows? Even the insiders arent sure'
Sometimes you find fascinating little tidbits of Microsoft news buried in obscure places, tossed in as throwaway remarks. Todays case in point comes
from a post
at the Windows Installer team blog, which tries to explain why some references to Windows Installer 4.1 appeared on an MSDN and then were
removed.
The explanation provides an interesting factoid and also illustrates a larger principle about how Microsoft works.
First the factoid. From the
post (with emphasis added): The back story here starts about this time last year when we were finishing up Windows Installer 4.0 in Windows
Vista and asking ourselves Whats next?. At that time, we didnt know the bar for features in Windows Vista SP1 and next major release of Windows.
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Knowing none of the feature and release criteria, our best guess at the time was that Windows Vista
SP1 would ship first, an out of band release would ship next, and then the next full version of Windows would be our focus.
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he new guard in Windows had a very different bar for the Vista SP than had been in practice for previous releases (at
least in my memory). Generally there is lip service to no large feature work in a SP but this time folks listened. Big feature adds were heavily
scrutinized. The items we wanted to fix in the SP, UAC tweaks, were big feature by the new bar.
When the UAC tweaks were
rejected for Vista SP1, the justification for 4.1 faded as there were no new features in the Windows Installer in Vista SP1.
The good news to
all of you who have been complaining about UAC is that your protests have not been falling on deaf ears. The bad news is that whatever work is being
done will not appear in SP1.
So when will it appear? I found it fascinating that this team of developers at Microsoft, working on
core technology, had to guess at the timeline and feature set for future versions of Windows, including a crucial service pack. Let that be a lesson
for those who believe that Microsoft, in Borg-like fashion, ruthlessly coordinates its activities. The reality is theres a lot of internal debate
within the halls at One Microsoft Way, and even insiders are confused over whats coming up in the Windows road map.
Now, can we
talk about that out-of-band release?
winbeta.org - 02.10.2007
MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization
The MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization is a new tool designed to extend virtual application deployment in certain key scenarios. In
cases where a computer running Microsoft System Center Virtual Application Server is not available, the MSI Utility allows delivery of sequenced
applications directly to Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization for Desktops and Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization for Terminal
Services.
The MSI Utility enables the distribution of virtual applications without streaming. Instead, it uses Windows Installer
to load and configure virtual applications. By leveraging this standard format, the MSI Utility achieves Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 and
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 platform version-agnostic distribution of virtual applications if supported by organizational
Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) systems. As such, the MSI Utility is a stepping stone to the richer deployment options available in Microsoft
System Center Virtual Application Server 4.5.
winbeta.org - 19.12.2007
