Also called a "setup program" or "installer," an install program is software that prepares an application (software package) to run in the computer. Unless the app is a single utility program, it is ...

Anyone who doesn’t think competition promotes software innovation hasn’t been paying attention to the Windows setup market. It was only about a year ago that both Wise and InstallShield released ...

Linux has spoiled me over the last 26 years concerning installing applications, as it has had a command-line package installation program (apt-get) since 1999. Apt-get made it incredibly easy to ...