1.
The Short History
of Software
Installation
5
CHAPTER

2.
Why Care About Software Installation?

3.
The Download is like your first handshake
with your users...
It’s critical to make a strong impression

4.
A little background...

5.
When you get new software, you must
register and activate it

6.
Registration and activation used to be
very complex.
They required...
- manually moving the software folder into your program files
- entering values into your registry
- decrypting activation codes

7.
This process was a barrier to
widespread adoption

8.
Software companies were losing users,
and opportunity...

9.
...There was a clear need for a program that
could automate this process in a safe and
user-friendly way.

10.
ENTER: INSTALLATION WIZARDS

11.
Installation Wizard programs automated
almost the entire registration
and activation process

12.
And it hasn’t stopped there...

13.
Now, the top installation platforms give
granular insight into the installation process
Including...
- success rates
- geographic location
- technological errors

14.
Installation has gone from barrier to boon for
developers getting their software in the
hands of their users.

15.
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