MindVision announces Installer VISE 3.0 for Windows, a major release of the product that sets the standard for making installers easier to build.

"Installer VISE 3.0 is the result of over three years of working closely with hundreds of Windows developers, plus eight years of installer experience," said Steve Kiene, MindVision CEO. "This release represents a major advance in power, flexibility, and ease of use for an installer development environment. There is simply no other installer development environment which compares to Installer VISE."

Installer VISE 3.0 introduces these new features:

• Custom screens
• Easy-to-use, customizable layout interface
• Advanced Setup Capture and automatic installer builder
• DirectX 6 automatic detection and installation
• Build multiple installers (targets) from one project file
• Super-efficient FTP and HTTP installs
• Built-in product serialization
• Authenticode support for signing

MindVision has earned the trust and admiration of thousands of developers, and has delivered developer tools for over a decade.

Eric Herrmann, Chief Technical Officer at NetStudio Corporation, says:

"We are very happy with Installer VISE's rapid development environment, flexibility, and excellent support. Installer VISE 3.0 adds many important features that simplify our build process. We generate several different configurations including several trial installers plus a full retail installer, and Installer VISE 3.0's Multiple Build Target feature makes it painless.

We are gladly eliminating several scripts and batch files from our build process. The built-in compression is transparent and optimal; we could not make our installer smaller even with standalone compression tools.

MindVision really responds to us, and that is worth more than the price of the product."

Kate Ebneter of DataRover Mobile Systems, Inc. says:

"Other installation 'solutions' couldn't handle our 2.5 GB installer. With Installer VISE we were able to create an installer in just a few hours.

And when we had technical questions, they were answered quickly and accurately. I was truly blown away by the quality of both the solution and the support."

Building an installer should not require a big investment of time and energy. That's why Installer VISE for Windows delivers an all-visual, no-scripting installer development environment (IDE) that helps developers rapidly produce single-file executable installers that run on Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and NT.

Fully-functional evaluation copies of Installer VISE 3.0 and complete details on the new features are available for download.

Installer VISE (Visual Installer Setup Environment) easily installs files of any sort; creates program groups, shortcuts, registry entries; installs and activates services; calls custom DLLs; builds floppy, CD, network, and Internet installers; updates old versions to new versions; offers password protection and built-in product serialization; flexibly interacts with end-users; and delivers faster, smaller installations with top-quality compression. All of this is done in an all-visual environment that requires no scripting or programming expertise.

Foreign language files are available for over a dozen languages, and tools to simplify the localizing of custom text are included.

Installer VISE comes complete with our famous, helpful technical support at the same great price -- no extra charge.

More features and more details can be found in the Installer VISE documentation

Fully-functional evaluation versions of MindVision products can be obtained directly from the MindVision Web site, by calling (402) 477-3269, or by sending e-mail to sales@mindvision.com.

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