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The MSIX Report Cards 

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This collection is 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).

The following reports are available:

Topic Description Release Date Thumbnail First Page of PDF
 2024 Research Paper

Report Card on MSIX for 2024

Windows 11 23H2

This 16-page paper examines the current state of MSIX, and the state of the industry in February 2024.

It reports on the industry in these areas:

  • Support by Independent Software Vendors to release in MSIX Format
  • Support by Tool Vendors
  • Support inside the Operating System
  • Application Compatibility Testing Results
  • App Attach Performance (summary)

It includes the Repackaging test results for 96 apps using tooling available at the beginning of 2024.

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February 2,

2024

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 2024 Research Paper

App Attach Report Card for 2024

This 9-page paper examines the of App Attach for MSIX, and the state of the industry in January 2024.

It reports on the industry in these areas:

  • Fearures
  • Application Compatibility
  • Conversion to App Attach
  • Storage Requirements
  • Publishing Performance

It includes the Publishing test results for 90 app packages using tooling available at the beginning of 2024.

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January 30,

2024

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 22H2 Research Paper

Windows 10/11 22H2

This 17-page paper examines the then current release of MSIX, and the state of the industry in February 2023.

It reports on the industry in these areas:

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

It includes the Repackaging test results for 86 apps using tooling available at the beginning of 2023.

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February 22,

2023

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link to 21H2 Research Paper

Windows 10 21H2

This 14-page paper examines the then current release of MSIX, and the state of the industry in January 2022.

It reports on the industry in these areas:

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

It includes the Repackaging test results for 74 apps using tooling available at the beginning of 2022.

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February 3,

2022

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link to 20H2 Research Paper

Windows 10 20H2

This 22-page paper examines the then current release of MSIX, and the state of the industry in January 2021.

It reports on the industry in these areas:

  • Support by Independent Software Vendors to release in MSIX Format
  • Support by Tool Vendors
  • Support inside the Operating System
  • Application Compatibility Testing Results
  • MSIX App Attach

It includes the Repackaging test results for 70 apps using tooling available at the end of 2020.

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February 5,

2021

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link to 1909 Research Paper

Windows 10 1909 

Consists of two papers:

  • Report Card

    This 22 paper examines the then current release of MSIX, and the state of the industry in January 2020.

    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

It includes the Repackaging test results for 60 apps using tooling from multiple vendors as available at the end of 2019.

  • Surveys on MSIX Report

    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.

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January 23,

2020

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link to 1809 Research Paper

Windows 10 1809 

This 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

15 pages.

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January 21,

2019

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