What is MSIX?
MSIX is a Windows app package format that provides a modern packaging experience to all Win32, UWP, and Windows apps. It’s a new way of doing application virtualization compared to technologies such as App-V.
Here are some of the advantages packing an application as MSIX:
- Simplified installation: This format eliminates the need for an account with administrative privileges to install, update, or remove the application.
- Greater security and better performance: The application installation keeps all application files and registry keys in the application directory (
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps
). This avoids the application compatibility problem, keeps files safe, as it is not possible to change any files or keys in the application directory, and preserves the performance of the OS since the OS files and registry keys are not changed. - Access to Windows APIs: After packaging to the APPX/ MSIX format, the application will have access to all...