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Status: Closed
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Closed: Oct 11
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Chrome with MSIX

Reported by niroshan...@kp.org, Oct 10

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. At present Google delivers Chrome Windows installer as MSI. For Windows 10 - modern management and for MS Store (including Private Store) Microsoft recommends MSIX. Can you kindly provide Chrome (Canary, Beta, and Stable) as MSIX?

MSIX benefits for Application Developers:
•	No need to build installer/updater/uninstaller
•	More distribution options (Microsoft Store)
•	Monetization, licensing
•	Future proof as it works with scenarios like Windows 10 in S Mode and other configurations/devices.
•	Access to all Windows 10 APIs and features
•	Allows for extensibility

MSIX benefits for the Enterprise:
•	Declarative installs
•	Reliable, fast installs and updates
•	Truly clean uninstalls
•	Protected app data
•	Additional distribution options (MS Store for Business, Intune)
•	No “WinRot” or DLL Hell”
•	Network bandwidth savings with Delivery Optimization capabilities and differential updates
•	Storage size savings
•	Works with Windows 7 to help with transition to Windows 10
•	Ability to deliver to Windows 10 in S Mode

From an enterprise tooling expectations:
•	Ability to repackage existing installers to MSIX
•	High conversion success rate and compatibility
•	UX and Command line tool for IT Pros
•	Support Win7 and Win10 with the same binaries
•	Configure final package for successful deployment

MSIX technical documentation (finally) at https://aka.ms/msix and the first link (What is MSIX) has a nice intro video: https://youtu.be/phrD081sMWc.

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
In addition to MSI, start supporting MSIX.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 69.0.3497.100  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version:
 
Please cancel this feature request as MSIX may not be a good solution at this early stage. 
Status: Closed (was: Unconfirmed)
Will do, thanks for the feedback and for keeping the current status of the request up to date!

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