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Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:03 AM

Additional upgrade discounts from Acresso, including end-of-life products

Today Acresso extended the upgrade discount offer (10% off the upgrade price) that is available through the end of September (for AdminStudio: end of October) to the following product versions: InstallShield Express: versions 11, 11.5, 12, 2008 InstallShield...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:20 PM

Acresso released AdminStudio 9 and announced end of life for AdminStudio 7.x

On August 29, 2008 Acresso released version 9.0 of AdminStudio Enterprise, Professional and Standard editions. AdminStudio 9 Release Notes (PDF) Webinar: What's New in AdminStudio 9.0 and Workflow Manager 5.0 Registration required. WARNING: Anyone...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:16 AM

Acresso announces end of life for InstallShield 11.x and InstallAnywhere 7, special upgrade discount offer

On August 27, 2008, Acresso announced the end of life of InstallShield 11 and 11.5. This includes Premier, Professional and Express Editions and all languages of these Editions. Acresso also announced the end of life of InstallAnywhere 7.x. To stay current...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:00 AM

InstallShield 2009 Express available

On August 27, 2008 Acresso released version 2009 of InstallShield Express, completing the InstallShield 2009 product family: Premier, Professional and Express. New features in this version include: Setup Prerequisites based on feature selection Visual...
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Monday, August 25, 2008 8:50 PM

New Advanced Installer 6.5 brings Windows Installer 4.5 support and WiX import

On August 19th, 2008 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. The new Advanced Installer enables developers and system administrators to easily build and repackage complex applications into reliable, ready to...
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Saturday, August 09, 2008 2:45 PM

Pantaray adds MSI support to QSetup, releases free SuperOrca MSI editor

The QSetup family of products from Pantaray Research Ltd. used to produce setup programs for Windows using proprietary technology for many years. With the release of QSetup 9.0 Panatray recently added the ability to create setup files in the form of an...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:33 PM

Tarma Installer 5.2 released

Tarma Software Research announces the release of Tarma Installer 5.2. Tarma Installer 5 helps you to create installation ("Setup") programs for your own software product. Major new features of Tarma Installer 5 include support for x64 Windows...
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 10:27 AM

WinINSTALL acquired by Scalable Software

Scalable Software Limited, a leader in IT Asset Lifecycle Management solutions, announced on June 30, 2008 that it has completed the acquisition of the WinINSTALL® Desktop Management business from Attachmate of Seattle, Wash. Terms of the deal were not...
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Friday, June 27, 2008 6:41 PM

New Advanced Installer 6.4 brings support for transactions in SQL scripts and 64-bit Java

On June 16th, 2008 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. The new Advanced Installer enables developers and system administrators to easily build and repackage complex applications into reliable, ready to deploy...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 10:52 AM

Service Pack 1 for InstallShield 2009 available [Update]

Only two weeks after the inital release of InstallShield 2009 Acresso published a service pack. The main purpose of SP1 is to add support for the release version of Windows Installer 4.5. The inital release only supported MSI 4.5 Beta 2. SP1 also fixes...
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Friday, June 20, 2008 5:46 PM

ScriptLogic released MSI Studio for SCCM, supporting WiX format

One more TechEd announcement (actually it's already 10 days old but I haven't had the chance to post it yet): On June 10, 2008 ScriptLogic® Corporation, a leading provider of systems lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® Windows®-based...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:33 AM

InstEd 1.5.2.3 released

InstEd is a freeware MSI editor, formerly known as appEditor. The new release adds back/forward navigation, huge performance improvements, Windows Installer 4.5 support and several other enhancements and fixes. InstEd 1.5.2.3 release notes InstEd download
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:30 PM

InstallShield 2009 released

Here's another TechEd announcement: InstallShield 2009 is available InstallShield 2009 - which is internally version 15.0 - is the first InstallShield release under the new company name Acresso. New features in this version include: Managed Code Custom...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:02 AM

MSI 4.5 Released

[updated 2008-06-04 with additional links] Today TechEd North America started, and many companies use TechEd to announce new products and releases. So here's the first announcement that caught my attention: Windows Installer 4.5 has been released...
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Monday, June 02, 2008 12:53 PM

VMware Update fixes Security Vulnerabilities

On May 30 VMware Inc. announced updates to VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE and VMware Fusion to resolve critical security issues. A heap buffer overflow could allow a process to break out of the guest VM and execute code on the host. In...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:33 AM

Tarma Installer 5.1 released

Tarma Software Research announces the release of Tarma Installer 5.1. Tarma Installer 5 helps you to create installation ("Setup") programs for your own software product. Major new features of Tarma Installer 5 include support for x64 Windows...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:10 AM

appEditor is now InstEd, and Installer2Go has a new owner

News about two freeware/shareware tools for creating Windows Installer setups. appEditor is a Windows Installer authoring tool from Camwood Ltd. Recently the original author has resumed the rights to appEditor and published an improved version under the...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:33 PM

New Advanced Installer 6.3 brings Vista Games Explorer integration and Visual Studio Setup projects import

On May 9th, 2008 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. The new Advanced Installer enables developers and system administrators to easily build and repackage complex applications into reliable, ready to deploy...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:13 PM

Webcast: Application Virtualization with AdminStudio and Thinstall

On Wednesday, May 14, VMware (makers of Thinstall) and Acresso (makers of AdminStudio) will hold a free online webcast titled "Application Virtualization Reduces Costs with Conflict Free Applications". Description: Use Thinstall and AdminStudio...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:41 PM

Upgrade offer for old InstallShield and AdminStudio versions

There's currently a special offer that allows owners of InstallShield and AdminStudio to upgrade to the current version at a reduced price. InstallShield versions older than 11.0 and AdminStudio versions older than 7.0 are no longer entitled to regular...
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