Is InstallShield 2010 really necessary to support Windows 7 (against using InstallShield 12)
- by Steve
I have received an e-mail from Flexera containing the following statement:
"We understand that many of our customers still using InstallShield 12 maybe having difficulties sending installations to Windows 7 desktops, 64 Bit servers or R2 2008.
Therefore we would like to provide this opportunity for you to erase these potential / current problems and upgrade despite InstallShield 12 being End of Life’d some time ago."
We have not had any problems ourselves. I am interested to hear if anyone else has had any issues or whether this is a scare to get us to upgrade unnecessarily.
I did examine in some detail the differences at the original end-of-life notice but could not see any issues that affected our installations.
Interestingly they call this an 'amnesty' - almost implying we are criminals for not upgrading (cf OED).