M6 - The home of the MSIX Technical Community
MSIX is Microsoft's newest packaging technology for building and delivering Windows Applications, with the goal of bring containerization technology to all applications.
Announced in the spring of 2018, but without any product to back it, MSIX is many things for many people.
- It is a the replacement for the MSI package format
- It is a way for developers to modernize applications
- It is a way for IT Professionals to repackage older applications for improved deployment
- It allows an application to contain a mixture of Win32 and .NetCore functionality in a single package
- It is a containerized runtime to make operating systems more secure and less dirty
 | This website was started by several early practitioners as a community site dedicated to sharing information on MSIX. The M6conf name came about for the website name because we didn't want to step on Microsoft naming and M SIX could be pronounced as M 6. |
The site contains information for anyone interested in MSIX. Whether you are a developer or an IT Pro. It is in part a collection of links to other sites gathered in one place, but also with new original content shared with the community as well. Our goal is to keep you well informed on the technology, and successful in your efforts with it.
M6Conf is proud to now also be the home of The MSIX Report Cards, an independent community project run by Tim Mangan, which provides a measurement & evaluation of how well the technology is evolving.
Note: Microsoft MSIX is not related to a US government program that has an acronym of MSIX (Migrant Student Information Exchange).