History
On April 5, 2004, WiX was the first Microsoft project to be released under an externally created Open Source license, the Common Public License. It was also the first Microsoft Shared Source project to be hosted externally (on SourceForge).
Rob Mensching, the original author and lead developer of WiX, works on WiX in his spare time. At the time of release he said, "I did not feel that many people inside Microsoft understood what the Open Source community was really about and I wanted to improve that understanding by providing an example."
As of 2006, several other Microsoft employees from various product divisions of the company work on WiX with Mensching, meeting after business hours once a week to coordinate development efforts and write code. WiX has proven to be so popular with Microsoft development teams that many of Microsoft's software products, such as SQL Server 2005, Office 2007, and Microsoft Codename Oslo are packaged using WiX.
As of 2007, WiX version 2.0 is considered stable and production quality, and is no longer being developed.
As of July 4, 2009, WiX version 3.0 is considered release quality.
WiX version 3.5 was released January 31, 2011.
WiX version 3.6 was released September 3, 2012 and has a focus on Burn.
WiX version 3.7 is currently under development.
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