With the Anniversary Update to Windows 10 this summer, Microsoft made the official release of the Microsoft Desktop Bridge for Windows, formerly known as Project Centennial. The Desktop Bridge is a transitional approach that Microsoft is using to encourage software vendors to start the process of migrating older software technologies, such as traditional "Win32", ".Net", and "Java" apps towards Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Apps.

The Notes pane in Advanced Installer allows you to add comments just as you do when you write code for your application. Saving from the horrible task of having to edit the .AIP source file in raw XML, we want to encourage you to document the installer configuration as you are used to document code.

Starting with version 2.9 of Installer Analytics you can integrate our service with Google Analytics and take your data analysis to the next level.

Together with Microsoft we are working on creating the best development tools to help you build and deploy your application.

Set up your complete development environment using the Advanced Installer extension for Visual Studio. This feature is available in all editions, including Freeware, and our support starts with Visual Studio 2010 up to the latest version.

The latest version of Installers Analytics is now live. Version 3.0 brings you a completely new insight on your installations data, exposing precise information on how many successful, cancelled or failed installations have occurred. It also helps you prepare your GUI by providing accurate data on the end-user's DPI options.

The built-in virtual machines manager from Advanced Installer allows you to test your MSI installations inside a VM with just a click. Connect your Hyper-V or VMware machines to our manager and we'll do the rest for you.

Get more users, publish your Win32/.NET application in the Windows Store, in just a few days.

Starting with version 2.9 of Installer Analytics you can integrate Segment with our service to gain deeper insights from your data.

Starting with version 2.9 of Installer Analytics you can integrate our service with Mixpanel to gain deeper insights from your data.

Grab a sneak peek on the latest features we’ve included in version 2.9 of Installer Analytics. The most important mentions being: integrations with other analytics platforms, time zone bounded reports and more detailed information about your user base.

Starting with version 13.2, all future versions of Advanced Installer are using a new engine to manage prerequisites installations, multiple language and multiple instances support.

The MSI Conflict Detector is a tool that allows you to monitor a repository of MSI packages (no matter with what tool they were built) for breaking conflicts. It can be run manually with full UI or from within scripts, called programmatically.

TweakAppV is a free tool from Advanced Installer that takes App-V 5.x editing, from the command-line to a new level, by offering full access to the package contents. You can automate any operation for hundreds of packages in minutes, saving weeks of manual work.

Start packaging for the future. Build 100% compliant UWP packages for Windows 10.

For the 5th year in a row the Advanced Installer team is proud to sponsor the AppManagEvent conference. This is the place to be if you want to learn more about application packaging, virtualization, deployment and management, desktop management, mobile device management and privilege management.

Come and talk to us in Paris on October 4-5, at Microsoft experiences'16. You can find us at the ExperTeam booth, our official partner in France.

Once again, the Advanced Installer Team will be at Microsoft Ignite. Visit our booth #2354 and you'll be able to speak directly with the engineers that are building Advanced Installer. Besides the free lessons you can also get our free Advanced Installer swags.

It has been some time since we made our last release but we haven't spent all summer at the beach. We've got some great stuff to for you and version 2.8 includes just a few, so stay tuned for more.

On August 2nd, 2016 Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. One of the most important features from this update is Project Centennial, this support allows you to easily migrate your Win32 applications to UWP, thus be able to publish the app in the Windows store, without re-writing your code.