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Saturday, June 30, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Windows Installer 4.5 Beta Accepting Nominations
The draft white paper "Agility Trends in Package Software" is posted at Microsoft Connect. The draft is a part of the information offered to the tools vendors on the Live Meeting call last month, Robert Flaming expands.
A complete set of Windows Installer 4.5 beta documents are expected to be available on July, Binary Download of the product to be available on August 07.
Sign-Up for Beta Nominations
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Windows SteadyState is now available
Windows SteadyState runs on genuine copies of Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.
Download & More Details
Friday, June 15, 2007
Windows Installer 4.1 & Vista SP1 - How Close ?
It appears a new version of Windows Installer 4.1 is on the horizon. On May 04, Windows Installer Team at Microsoft posted Invitation to Windows Installer Tools Vendors for a Live Meeting Event at their blog web site saying, "At this event we'll discuss the next step for the Windows Installer so you can consider the fit to your plans". Couple of days ago at MSDN pages for Windows Installer, I found the following:
Windows Installer 4.1 updates Windows Installer 4.0 without adding any new features and is available in Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008. [Link]
So when can we expect the new version of Windows Installer 4.1 to be available (also obviously as a redistributable upgrade to current Windows Installer 4.0 on Vista)? Microsoft hasn't issued a press release with that pronouncement. Instead, it notified its Technology Adoption Partner testers of it via an e-mail regarding the imminent start of the Vista SP1 testing program where they mention:
The Technology Adoption Program (TAP) is looking for customers and partners actively test and provide feedback on Windows Vista SP1 to help us prepare for its release in the second half of CY07.
There will definitely be sessions as like Webcasts, blogs, documentation's etc from Windows Installer Team at Microsoft about the new release, I will keep them posted as soon as I find more details. For now, either subscribe for RSS feeds or bookmark this site.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
New Windows Installer KB Articles relating to Vista (929710, 929467)
- These articles were discussed earlier by Windows Installer Team as future candidates to be included at Microsoft Knowledge Base. As the team explains, a future scheduled to be published Knowledge Base article titled "ElevationShield will not show during maintenance mode on a Windows Installer native UI PushButton control" is already on it's queue.