The MSIX Report Card

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for Windows 10 1909 

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The Reports Cards on MSIX are a series of research papers examining how MSIX is doing at various points in time. Each report is labeled with the Windows 10 Release version associated with the report (as most of the report is dependent on the MSIX Runtime in that version).

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Windows 10 and Windows Server 1909

These two papers examines MSIX, and the state of the industry in January 2020:

Topic Description Release Date Thumbnail First Page of PDF
Image of the 1909 Research Papers Report Card   View report (new window)

This 22 paper examines the initial release of MSIX, and the state of the industry in January 2019.

It reports on the industry in three areas:

  •  Support by Independent Software Vendors to release in MSIX Format
  •  Support by Tool Vendors
  •  Support inside the Operating System

The report also includes the Repackaging test results using tooling from multiple vendors as available at the end of 2019.

 January 23, 2020 Cover image of the 1909 MSIX Report Card Paper
Image of the 1909 Research Papers Community Surveys Report   View report (new window)

This additional 22 page paper shows the results of two industry surveys on MSIX conducted near the end of 2019:

  • Survey for Developers building MSIX applications.

  • Survey for IT Pros repackaging and/or delivering MSIX applications.

 January 23, 2020 Cover image of the 1909 Community Surveys Paper