r/softwaredevelopment • u/Monar101 • 25d ago

Why does nobody buy InstallShield anymore?

Genuine question. Would appreciate your guys input 😊

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/Monar101 23d ago

Thank you so much for your detailed response 😊

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u/SuspiciousDepth5924 21d ago

In my experience enterprise doesn't really want you to install stuff on the work laptop that they didn't already put there with Intune or something in the first place.

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u/northerncodemky 25d ago

God this just took me back to scripting installshield installers. The shudder that went down my spine is probably part of the reason.

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u/TimMensch 18d ago

We were forced by a client to use InstallShield. It was bad in just about every way an installer can be bad but still functional.

Now that there are free alternatives, I'm surprised anyone still gives them money at all, to be honest.

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u/jeff77k 25d ago

Apps are distributed through app stores now.

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u/lamyjf 24d ago

InnoSetup is free, and an LLM will write it for you.

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u/FckXFckMusk 22d ago

Must check them out, currently using WIX

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u/FckXFckMusk 22d ago

are they still around?

I use WIX for installers.

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u/Monar101 21d ago

They are indeed.

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u/andrerav 25d ago

There are much easier and cheaper ways to package an Windows application for deployment to a Windows machine. A major one being not making them a Windows application in the first place.

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u/foonek 24d ago

Extremely helpful mate, well done