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Contents 1 uninstall 2 Awfulness 3 unattended? 4 lack of cross platform support and free software creators

[edit] uninstall

it might be worth mentioning how to uninstall Windows Installer packages --Spoon! 06:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Awfulness

I can't help thinking there ought to be a section entitled Awfulness, in order for this to be a useful article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.244.199.2 (talk) 13:02, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] unattended?

MSI installers are great for network admins... someone with more wiki skills should add in that MSIs can be easily deployed through ADs. 67.9.38.116 22:46, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] lack of cross platform support and free software creators

It seems one disadvantage is lack of free software for creating MSI, also across platforms. With NSIS, you can build installer packages for Windows on a GNU/Linux system. With MSI, there does not seem to exist a solution for this as of yet. 10:59, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

WiX is a free package that allows you to build MSIs.

But WiX by itself does not create the actual MSI files. You still need the Windows Installer DLLs and/or tools. WiX is just a front-end. --TorLillqvist10:32, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

As for lack of cross-platform support, do you mean making install packages that will work on different platforms, or just the creation of the MSIs that you would like to be able to do on a non-Windows platform? --RenniePet 13:34, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

The latter, I assume.