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I received an update notice from Installshield latest version (2019 R2) , and they start talking about MSIX.
From Microsoft:
"...MSIX is the Windows app package format that provides a modern packaging experience to all Windows apps. The MSIX package format preserves the functionality of existing app packages and/or install files in addition to enabling new, modern packaging and deployment features to Win32, WPF, and WinForm apps..."
"...Take your existing desktop application and add modern experiences for Windows 10 users. Then, achieve greater reach across international markets by distributing it through the Microsoft Store. You can monetize your application in much simpler ways by leveraging features built right into the Store. Of course, you don't have to use the Store. Feel free to use your existing channels...."
I have no clue about those "modern experiences for windows 10 users" they are talking aboot.
How is this different from MSI (packaged in a setup.exe) ?
Is this relevant for normal/regular/boring Windows Desktop application installations packages (non-windows store) ?
This video show them repackaging an existing MSI installer, and I don't the point of it.
This MSIX inside and out - BRK2467 - YouTube video show a some more (along tons of star-trek type techno-babble), but still confusing af.
I'd rather be phishing!
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New icon?
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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I know many people still haven't moved on to win 10, but
- how many years old is this "modern interface"?
- how many years have past interfaces lasted?
OIOW, how much longer will it still be modern?
you know it's always the icons that change first
... you know, like the wife buys a new table and the carpet no longer matches
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It is very popular today to use the word "experience" in marketing and it seems to be very important to just about everything. The really annoying thing is it is often used in really weird ways and this is one example. What the heck is a "modern packaging experience" ? Never mind. I really don't think I want to know.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: What the heck is a "modern packaging experience" ?
Wrapping the chips* in newspaper instead of styrofoam? 
* "Fries" for the non-Brits
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It is likely more immersive. Like we all want to do with a marketer's head and a bucket of their own output.
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Just another method to add Win32 applications to the windows store.... Marketing BS... Plus the techno Safer, Better blah. blah...
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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Is cloning a large flightless bird just emulation?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ostrich the definition a bit further, perhaps: eggactly one tern for the worse.
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The largest flightless bird must have been the Hindenbird. 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Don't be a Dodo
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1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Well, the kiwis call it "giving birth".
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You have a lotta gull to post that, certainly nothing to crow about.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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perhaps was a flight of fancy?
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Perhaps, or something more nefarious, which might require (l)eagle action.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Made me think of the B.C. comic strip...
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But I guess that is just wingless (flightless is only implied)
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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Emulation to be watched like a Hawk, perhaps.
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Took a break yesterday and relaxed in local Barnes & Noble and stumbled upon this fantastic book.
The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI by Marcus du Sautoy [^]
I read the first 40 pages while sitting in the book store, because his retelling of the events of AlphaGo (AI-powered Go algorithm which beat the World Champion).
I've read numerous things about AI and it is often hype. But if you read this account of what AlphaGo did, you will see, as the world Go players did, that the AI actually created a new way of playing Go and that is fascinating.
It's a really great book if you're interested in creativity and what it means to create and what creation means in relation to machines.
Very well written too: a fast read. I've been looking for a book like this to become more interested in AI.
Author's bio Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy is a British mathematician, author, and populariser of science and mathematics. In 2008, he was appointed to the Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford where he is also a Professor of Mathematics
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Nice one! I hadn't heard of it, but it looks well worth the read.
Ordered (just not from Bezos).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Nice one! I hadn't heard of it, but it looks well worth the read.
It really is a good one. So much interesting stuff I couldn't put it down. I hope you'll chime in on the lounge when you read some and have some thoughts about it. 
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Hi All,
Back from a week off, got hungry, started on my Lunch, a John West Tuna thing that comes in a foil dish. I was thinking 'Hmmm, looks like a cat food tin' and someone just saw me eating it and said 'Cat food?'until then it didn't taste too bad... 
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You're OK - it's not cat food.
Cats get the good stuff.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Cats get take the good stuff.
FTFY
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Cats don't ask...[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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