Macrovision Products Overview

Macrovision offers a broad range of industry-leading content and software value management solutions. Macrovision's installation-authoring solutions help you create high-quality software installations every time-significantly reducing development time.

Micromail can supply all products from the Macrovision range:

1. InstallShield 2008
2. InstallAnywhere
3. AdminStudio 8.6
4. Maintenance Information

New Release: Installshield 2008!

InstallShield is the industry standard for Windows Installer and InstallScript installations. InstallShield 2008 lets software producers of all sizes author high-quality installations for Windows platforms, including Vista, and extend them to configure database servers, Web services, and mobile devices.

According to IBM, 28% of application failures are related to installation and configuration errors. Yet many software producers continue to rely on home-grown or out-of-date installations that increase their support costs and their customers’ frustration.

Deployed on more than 500 million PCs worldwide, InstallShield technology combines power and flexibility with ease-of-use. It offers a simple way to create reliable, professional installations for even the most complex applications, keeping your customers happy and your support costs down.

Installshield is available in 3 different editions:

• Installshield 2008 Premier
• Installshield 2008 Professional
• Installshield 2008 Express

New features in Installshield 2008:

Optimize your installations for Windows Vista

InstallShield 2008 includes support for UAC, Restart Manager, Windows Vista validation testing, Windows Installer 4.0, expanded digital signing capabilities, and more

Stay current with support for the latest Microsoft technologies

Including .NET Framework 3.0, Visual Studio 2005, IIS 7.0, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server "Longhorn", Direct X 9.0c, Windows Mobile platforms including Windows Embedded CE 6.x, and more

Reduce development time

- InstallShield 2008's powerful IDE, automated wizards, templates, and pre-built objects saves you significant time and effort

- The Project Assistant walks you step-by-step through the setup building process, increasing your efficiency while helping you avoid errors

- The new InstallShield Best Practices Validation Suite helps you avoid common installation issues that can cause lengthy delays

Cut support costs with reliable installations

InstallShield 2008's simplified patch and upgrade creation, Standalone Build system support, debugging, and Build Report tools substantially increase the quality of your installations

Maximize team efficiencies with InstallShield Collaboration

InstallShield 2008 also supports InstallShield Collaboration, which lets you capture, test, maintain, and use installation requirements throughout the development process

Premier - The Most Powerful, Capable, and Widely-used Edition among Installation Developers

InstallShield is the industry-standard tool for ensuring that your Windows software products are correctly installed, configured, updated, and eventually uninstalled on your customers' systems. The top-tier InstallShield Premier is the most powerful, capable, and widely-used Edition among installation developers worldwide. With support for the latest technologies, significant performance and quality improvements, and functionality that lets you fully leverage the capabilities of Windows Vista, InstallShield 2008 Premier is the most robust Edition ever.

InstallShield 2008 Premier Edition allows developers to:

Avoid common installation issues— Validators in the new InstallShield Best Practices validation suite alert you if your installation violates any best-practices guidelines

Maintain a clean build system— With the Standalone Build engine, you can now use only the part of InstallShield that compiles installations

Improve your end user's experience- with refreshed end-user dialog designs

Easily convert legacy installations into Windows Installer packages- with InstallShield Repackager

Localize your installation— InstallShield's multilingual support lets you create installations for 33 runtime languages from one installation project

Quickly roll out new installations— With network repositories, it's now easy to build a repository of common elements that multiple installation authors can access and reuse in projects

Create trial versions without modifying code— With the try-and-die type of trialware's simple configuration changes, you can easily offer potential customers a fully functional trial version of your product (After the predetermined trial limit has been reached on an end user's machine, the trial version automatically expires.)

Maximize team efficiencies— With support for InstallShield Collaboration, a plug-in for the Visual Studio development environment.

To purchase Installshield 2008 Premier, please email Diarmuid

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Professional - The Powerful yet Easy-to-use Installation Solution

InstallShield is the industry-standard installation tool. Its Professional Edition is a powerful yet easy-to-use solution, ideal for both novice and seasoned installation developers. While most homegrown installation tools are not optimized for current industry standards, InstallShield 2008 Professional makes your life easy by letting you take advantage of latest technologies—including full support for Windows Vista.

Using Macrovision InstallShield 2008 Professional Edition, developers can:

Reduce development time — Quickly and easily build your installations by moving pieces of an existing project (dialogs, custom actions, or features) to another installation project; create and manage re-usable project outlines so you don't have to start your installations from scratch.

Easily customize your installations — Modify the layout of existing end-user dialogs or create new ones for each language your installation supports; manage multiple product versions, allowing specific features to be included in a release via user-defined flags; and much more

Better control your installations with InstallScript — Add InstallScript custom actions to your MSI projects or create InstallScript projects that control your entire installation

Get advanced support for latest technologies — Windows Vista, .NET Framework 3.0, IIS 7.0, SQL Server 2005, beta of Windows Server "Longhorn", Direct X 9.0c, Windows Mobile platforms, and more; edit XML files; and add 64-bit support to your installations

Validate your installations for Windows Vista - - Easily test your installations for Windows Vista compatibility
- Applying for Windows Vista certification? Save time and money by validating full projects and merge modules to ensure compliance with extensive "Certified for Windows Vista" program guidelines before you apply.

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Express - The Quick and Easy Tool for Creating MSI Installations

InstallShield 2008 Express Edition is ideal for software developers and setup authors looking for a quick, easy, and cost-effective solution for creating reliable Windows Installer (MSI) installations.

Unlike homegrown solutions, the Express Edition shields you from the complexities of building a setup. It comes with an easy-to-use Project Assistant – a wizard that guides you through the MSI installation authoring process, step-by-step.

InstallShield 2008 Express Edition is ready with the tools you need to author professional installations optimized for Windows Vista. In addition, this release includes new and improved support for the latest technologies, including .NET Framework 3.0, Windows Embedded CE 6.x, Windows Server "Longhorn", and more. It also includes several usability enhancements to its IDE, making it even easier for setup authors to build reliable, professional installations.

Extremely Easy to Learn and Use – InstallShield 2008 Express Edition sizably reduces the time required for novice setup authors to successfully complete installation projects. It also lets experienced developers save time by more efficiently jumpstarting new projects.

Fits into Any Budget –InstallShield 2008 Express Edition is ideal for software developers and setup authors looking for a cost-effective solution for creating reliable Windows Installer (MSI) installations.

Available in Different Languages – InstallShield 2008 Express Edition is available in English, German, and Japanese to offer developers the flexibility to build in their own language.

To purchase Installshield 2008 Express, please email Diarmuid

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InstallAnywhere

Install Software on Multiple Platforms with One Installation Project

InstallAnywhere® gives software developers a quick and easy way to author professional installations for UNIX, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Windows, and more. It saves you time and cuts costs by creating a single project file that generates reliable setups for each of the platforms you target.

If you develop applications for multiple platforms, trying to manually create setups for each one is a time-consuming and error-prone process. It often leads to release delays and installation errors that frustrate end users and increase your support costs.

InstallAnywhere makes it easy for even the most novice installation developer to create professional setups for virtually any platform. It is available in two editions (Enterprise and Standard) and in four languages (English, German, French, and Japanese).

Reduce software development time

• Build an installation project in minutes with the Project Wizard and Advanced Designer – no coding needed
• Install software on multiple platforms using a single installation project
• Create setups of your most complex applications with advanced customization and configuration options and accessibility support

Impress end users with customized installations

• Create setups that match your branding using custom graphics, animation, and transparent images
• Automatically localize installation text in 31 different languages
• Give setups the platform-specific functionality they need using innovative APIs

Lower QA and support costs

• Get software to market faster by simplifying documentation and accelerating the QA process
• Capture, test, maintain, and use installation requirements throughout the development process with InstallAnywhere Collaboration
• Cut support costs by reducing end-user installation problems

What's new in InstallAnywhere 2008

• New and improved support for Windows Vista, Java 1.6, Mac OS X 10.5, Software as a Service (SaaS), Web applications, and more
• Bundle multiple VM instances for each target platform, making installations more flexible
• Present installation text in Hebrew and Arabic

To purchase InstallAnywhere 2008, please email Diarmuid

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New Release: AdminStudio 8.6

AdminStudio provides systems administrators with the most advanced solution for preparing reliable software packages and virtual applications for conflict-free deployment, offering a complete suite of automated MSI packaging, virtualization, customization, and testing tools.

AdminStudio enables enterprise IT teams to implement a structured software packaging process that ensures consistent, trouble-free software deployments and decreases application management costs.

AdminStudio 8.6 introduces a new edition for support of virtualization packaging, the AdminStudio Virtualization Pack, which provides support for application deployment on Citrix Presentation Server (Enterprise & Platinum editions) and the Thinstall 3.2 Virtualization Suite.

Top Reasons to Buy and Upgrade to AdminStudio 8.6

Improve Application Reliability

AdminStudio lets IT easily prepare software packages and virtual applications that deploy seamlessly, function reliably, and cut application management costs.

Cut Deployment Costs with Virtual Applications

AdminStudio makes it easy to quickly create, edit, and test both Citrix® and Thinstall® virtual applications that deploy without conflict. It is the only packaging solution that lets you choose from multiple virtualization formats.

Cut Packaging Time by 70%

AdminStudio’s automated tools help IT get end users applications 70% faster.

Migrate Applications to Windows Vista

AdminStudio takes the complexity out of migrating applications to any Windows® OS, including Vista.

Standardize on Windows Installer

AdminStudio makes it easy to standardize applications on the Windows Install (MSI) format to improve their reliability and manageability.

Increase the ROI of Your Software Deployment Solution

Deployment solutions such as Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007, ZENworks®, LANDesk®, BMC® Configuration Management, Citrix®, Tivoli®, and ManageSoft® are a great asset to IT, but only if the packages deployed with those tools are properly configured. AdminStudio is integrated with these tools to help ensure software packages are prepared correctly for error-free deployment.

Centrally Manage the Packaging Process

AdminStudio has enterprise-class tools that help IT maintain the security and efficiency of the packaging process and standardize it on best practices.

Increase Company Productivity

When software isn’t available or breaks down, productivity suffers. AdminStudio not only enables IT to get employees the mission-critical software they need faster, but it helps ensure those applications behave reliably throughout their lifecycles.

Centralize Your Packaging Resources

AdminStudio captures and stores all packages and application-related data in a single, centralized database easily accessible to IT. It leads to improved IT collaboration, more successful deployments, and more efficient application repairs and upgrades.

Free Up IT

Standardizing on AdminStudio means that time IT would have wasted manually packaging applications and repairing deployment messes can be used focus on other IT projects.

Improve Enterprise-Wide Perception of IT

When software continually breaks down or is unavailable, people notice, and IT gets the blame. AdminStudio makes IT more effective, improving the organization’s overall satisfaction with IT.

NEW! Thinstall Virtualization Support

Virtual applications cut IT costs by eliminating the possibility of conflicts with other applications and the base OS. Only AdminStudio has the flexibility to help organizations interested in a variety of virtualization options. AdminStudio now gives you the power to quickly create, edit, and test Thinstall virtual applications. It’s the only solution that can convert MSIs directly to Thinstall (or Citrix) virtual packages with a few simple mouse clicks. AdminStudio’s Thinstall Assistant saves you time and effort by guiding you through the virtualization process.

NEW! Customizing Thinstall Applications

Edit every aspect of Thinstall virtual profiles, from modifying registry settings and shortcuts to controlling file isolation options at a granular level, quickly and easily.

NEW! Upgrade/Hotfix Support for InstallShield

AdminStudio includes InstallShield® for MSI editing, and now you can apply InstallShield upgrades and hotfixes as soon as they are available, giving you faster access to new InstallShield features.

NEW! Application Catalog Merge Replication

For large organizations with packaging teams in multiple locations, AdminStudio can automatically synchronize all your Application Catalogs, making the most recent packages and packaging data available in each location. (Applies to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 databases only.)

To purchase AdminStudio 8.6, please email Diarmuid

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Maintenance Information

In addition to the resources of their support Web site, Macrovision offers a number of maintenance plans that are fine-tuned to meet your specific needs. Each maintenance plan is per licensed user and allows you to submit unlimited support requests for the duration of your plan.
For more information, click here.

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