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MSIX is interesting but effectively unusable outside the Store (I spent a few months of my life trying to do that at $PREVIOUS_JOB). Installation will fail on a
by ripley12 4y ago
MSIX is interesting but effectively unusable outside the Store (I spent a few months of my life trying to do that at $PREVIOUS_JOB). Installation will fail on a high percentage of machines, and you'll mostly be out of luck. There's a reason nobody at Microsoft uses it for installation outside the Store (Office did for a while but they gave up).
- mike_hearn 4y agoThere are some bad bugs in older Windows versions, but we were always able to diagnose and work around them. It's part of the value Conveyor provides. We have it working now and the results are pretty good: fast installs and uninstalls (as long as there isn't a lot of latency to the web server), especially if you already have the files locally, background or check-on-start updates, management from the CLI, group policy, MSIX Hero and so on. The alternatives are also not that great. I looked at many. Some are buggy, some are abandoned, some require complex server-side logic etc. The situation on Windows is far from ideal; it speaks to the general neglect of the platform. Nonetheless with a tool that works around or 'polyfills' issues MSIX can work well.