Web Platform Installer 2.0 available for Web developers

Hi,

Of late Microsoft Has been doing great job in creating an great experience for installation for both development component for Asp.net and IIS server and also available free open source software. Yes I am talking about the Web Platform Installer 2.0.

The web Platform Installer has been a great success, and is very user friendly tool to install most of the available software required for web development along with many available open source platforms and application.

Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Also known as Web PI) was released recently and can be downloaded from the link below.

http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx

The new release is localized in 9 different languages and includes many more scenarios around Dev tools enterprise and Media. There have already been over 1 million download (Now that means success) for Web Platform Installer, and over 840000 download of available application. So if you have an open source application you should look forward to have it in the Web platform installer, as this way it can be easily visible to a huge number of audience.

Web PI has over 400 installers and if used fully can download over 22 GB of data (so be careful when installing something). It works great with Windows XP, Vista and windows 7 and has input from the product teams of SQL, IIS, Venus, Asp.net Expression, Azure, and many more.

I would urge all the web developer to have look at the Web Platform Installer RTW today and use it as the first preference to install any software for web development. This also ensures that you get the latest version of the correct software from the right vendor.

Vikram