{"id":340,"date":"2015-01-04T17:15:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T01:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2015-06-12T04:28:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:28:02","slug":"happy-new-year-from-installaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year from InstallAware"},"content":{"rendered":"

InstallAware<\/strong> X2 is the perfect New Year’s Resolution for all setup developers:<\/p>\n

Fastest<\/span><\/strong>: New InstallAware<\/strong> X2 creates setups that install 50% faster than InstallShield<\/strong> (when InstallScript is used) and 17% faster than WiX (or Windows Installer)<\/strong> (1).<\/p>\n

Smallest<\/span><\/strong>: New InstallAware<\/strong> X2 creates setups that are 174% smaller than InstallShield<\/strong> (when InstallScript is used) and 224% smaller than WiX (or Windows Installer)<\/strong> (1); compresses data up to 95% smaller(2) overall.<\/p>\n

Safest<\/span><\/strong>: In more than a decade, InstallAware<\/strong> has never opened up systems with InstallAware<\/strong>-installed apps to attack(3), or had its toolchain rendered inoperative by Microsoft updates(4). InstallShield has been afficted by, and afflicted end-user systems with, both types of problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Freshest<\/span><\/strong>: Only new InstallAware<\/strong> X2 integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013<\/strong>, containing runtimes for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 and the entire Microsoft Windows 10 eco-system<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Super-Stable<\/span><\/strong>: Both InstallShield and WiX failed to create a simple ‘xcopy setup’<\/strong> installing the InstallAware<\/strong> X2 application folder(4). Industry bloggers for InstallShield and WiX, as well as InstallShield and WiX contacts, could not be reached for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most-Visible<\/span><\/strong>: Only new InstallAware<\/strong> X2 pins your apps programmatically to the new Microsoft Windows 10 Live Tiles Start Menu, or the existing Microsoft Windows 8.1 Start Screen<\/strong>.
\n
\nSpecial Effects<\/span><\/strong>: Only new InstallAware<\/strong> X2 setups have special effects like those found in Microsoft Visual Studio installers. Enjoy sliding and fading wizard animations<\/strong>, please your next-generation app-savvy clients. Beauty and intelligence combined!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Based on the objective metrics of speed, size, stability, and safety; as well as subjective unquantifiables such as beauty, InstallAware<\/strong> X2 is the only Windows Installer that makes sense.<\/p>\n

(1) Please see InstallAware<\/strong>‘s benchmark results at http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/benchmark.asp<\/a>. Had InstallShield and WiX been able to perform the ‘xcopy setup’ as we had originally intended, our speed and size savings would have been even more dramatic!<\/strong> Unfortunately, this was not possible due to critical bugs.<\/p>\n

(2) The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 runtime, when compressed with InstallAware<\/strong> X2, reduces from approximately 1.5 GB to 50 MB<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

(3) In 2008, a vulnerability was discovered in the InstallShield Update Service Agent, as documented at https:\/\/www.kb.cert.org\/vuls\/id\/837092<\/a>. Arbitrary code could be executed, compromising any system with InstallShield-installed products on them that made use of the InstallShield Update Service.<\/p>\n

(4) Microsoft’s Security Update KB2962872 is crashing multiple versions of InstallShield as described at http:\/\/windowsitpro.com\/security\/micros … tallshield<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

InstallAware X2 is the perfect New Year’s Resolution for all setup developers: Fastest: New InstallAware X2 creates setups that install 50% faster than InstallShield (when InstallScript is used) and 17% faster than WiX (or Windows Installer) (1). Smallest: New InstallAware X2 creates setups that are 174% smaller than InstallShield (when InstallScript is used) and 224% … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Happy New Year from InstallAware”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}