{"id":329,"date":"2014-11-30T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T22:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2015-06-12T04:28:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:28:58","slug":"installaware-x2-celebrating-a-decade-of-installaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"InstallAware X2: Celebrating A Decade of InstallAware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the course of the past fourteen months, InstallAware<\/strong> engineers have been hard at work putting together a release worthy of our tenth year in business:<\/p>\n

InstantInstall Acceleration:<\/strong> InstallAware is now the fastest installer on Windows.<\/strong> InstantInstall technology accelerates any existing Native Engine InstallAware<\/strong> setup by an order of magnitude – installing your apps literally in the blink of an eye(1).<\/p>\n

64-bit Compression:<\/strong> Shrink apps and data by up to 90%<\/strong>, or enjoy an extra 30% size reduction if you were already on our compression platform(2). Beat Microsoft’s own compression on runtimes such as .NET.<\/p>\n

Windows 10 Eco-System:<\/strong> Integrated with Visual Studio 2015<\/strong>. Click “Run” on the InstallAware<\/strong> toolbar in any Visual Studio version, and the InstallAware<\/strong> Add-In builds your setup for you instantly(3).<\/p>\n

Fading\/Sliding Wizard Transition Special Effects:<\/strong> Delight and instill confidence in your app-savvy users<\/strong> with new wizard transition FX, available only with InstallAware<\/strong>, and compatible with all pre-built or custom-made setup themes(4).<\/p>\n

Application Pinning:<\/strong> Pin your apps to the Windows 8.1 Start Screen or the Windows 10 Start Menu Live Tiles<\/strong> section; illustrating our intent to do everything we can to get your apps noticed and make them shine(5): Microsoft and InstallShield claim pinning impossible.<\/p>\n

Team Foundation Server:<\/strong> Integrated with Microsoft Team Foundation Server versions 2010, 2012, and 2013<\/strong> – enjoy secure source\/version control and collaborate locally or globally with setup teams.<\/p>\n

Extra-Long Path Lengths:<\/strong> Transcend the MAX_PATH character limit<\/strong>. InstallAware<\/strong> even “plays nice” with legacy installers you are spawning from deep paths, mounting them at a shortened path to ensure your third party setups succeed.<\/p>\n

Refactored Runtimes:<\/strong> Install on both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems from a single runtime, enjoy 64-bit compression savings, deploy .NET Framework 4.6<\/strong>, the Visual C++ 14 Runtime<\/strong>, and the latest SQL Server Express<\/strong> versions.<\/p>\n

InstallAware<\/strong> X2 revitalizes the entire Windows Desktop experience. InstallAware<\/strong> X2 is the Desktop Developers’ Destiny<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

It will take InstallShield months, possibly years to clone all of our benefits above. Switch to InstallAware<\/strong> X2 today – meet your destiny!<\/p>\n

Directly witness InstallAware<\/strong> X2’s technology at work while you are installing InstallAware<\/strong> X2 itself from http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/download.asp<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1: The InstallAware<\/strong> X2 setup, consisting of nearly 15 GB of data, completes in mere moments after the compressed archive of 2 GB self-extracts.<\/p>\n

2: Despite the addition of more runtimes and data over its previous version, InstallAware<\/strong> X2’s setup is approximately 30% smaller than the previous version.<\/p>\n

3: The InstallAware<\/strong> Visual Studio Add-In is 100% Free and may be installed on any computer with Visual Studio using InstallAware<\/strong> X2 setup.<\/p>\n

4: Run the InstallAware<\/strong> X2 setup for a first-hand look at the impressive sliding wizard transition special effects.<\/p>\n

5: The InstallAware<\/strong> X2 IDE pins itself to the Windows 8.1 Start Screen or the Windows 10 Start Menu Live Tiles during installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the course of the past fourteen months, InstallAware engineers have been hard at work putting together a release worthy of our tenth year in business: InstantInstall Acceleration: InstallAware is now the fastest installer on Windows. InstantInstall technology accelerates any existing Native Engine InstallAware setup by an order of magnitude – installing your apps literally … <\/p>\n

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