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PC World: Microsoft Posts Tool as Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 6, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]

“Anyone who thought Microsoft’s recent settlement with longtime
nemesis Sun Microsystems seemed surreal was in for another shocker
Monday, when the software giant made some of its source code freely
available on the Internet.

“Microsoft released the code on SourceForge.net, a Web site that
provides free hosting for open source software development
projects. The Microsoft tool set, called WiX, for Windows Installer
XML, is intended for building Windows installation packages from
XML source code…”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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