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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsJesper Birk Olsen, Benjamin Liu, Soren Francker
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An application suite installation framework comprises an application suite installer program, an installation configuration file, and the program files and other contents that comprise the software applications. The installation configuration file contains an entry for each software application which is available for installation. The application suite installer program contains the logic to read the installation configuration file to determine the installation options to display, and displays the installation options to a user. For each of the software applications in the list that is selected by the user, the application suite installer program installs the software application using the information, including an application installer, specified in the entry corresponding to that software application in the installation configuration file.
A method in a computer system for installing one or more software applications in an application suite onto the computer system, the method comprising:
One or more computer memories collectively containing an installation configuration file that identifies one or more software applications, the installation configuration file comprising, for at least one application program identified in the installation configuration file, information that identifies the supported application program and information that identifies an installation program to use in installing the supported application program,
An application suite installer system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.