InstallShield became particularly well known after Microsoft endorsed it for use in Windows 95, and by 1997 Stirling Technologies estimated that it was being used in 85 to 90 percent of all software products written for Windows. In 1993, The Stirling Group moved into larger offices in Schaumburg, Illinois and changed the company's name to Stirling Technologies, Inc. īy 1990, The Stirling Group was selling a package of six products called the SHIELD Series, including InstallShield: The Shield Series They were to market a geographic mapping software, but it was never released. Their first office was a small room in the basement of an old library building in Roselle, Illinois. InstallShield was originally developed by The Stirling Group, a company founded in 1987 by Viresh Bhatia and Rick Harold, who had first met when they were computer science students at Northwestern University. It is possible to specify questions, set prerequisites and registry settings that the user will be able to choose at the installation time. msi file which can be used on the destination computer in order to install the payloads from the source computer where it was created.

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