Macrovision's InstallShield 10.5 Cuts Installation Development Time While Creating Revenue Opportunities

Business Wire, Nov 4, 2004

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Integrated Trialware Feature Opens New Revenue Channels by Easily Converting Products into Time-Limited Evaluation Versions

Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN) today announced the latest release of its flagship installation authoring solution, InstallShield(R) 10.5. As the standard for building strong, reliable installations for any operating system and device, InstallShield 10.5 extends the industry-leading capabilities of the InstallShield product line with a host of new features, including the ability to quickly create and deploy trial software versions, develop collaboratively based on assemblies, and support the latest version of Microsoft Software Installer, MSI 3.0.

"As the leader in business intelligence, SAS sells custom solutions for complex problems -- not shrink-wrapped products. So the ability to dynamically create solutions on-the-fly, taking various software components and putting them together in ways that make sense for our customers, is important to us," said Jason Losh, software manager in the Release Management Division at SAS. "With InstallShield 10.5's new Collaboration and Assembly features, SAS will continue to deliver our software in new and unique ways to solve new and unique business problems for our customers. Providing the smoothest possible installation experience for SAS solutions allows our customers to deploy our software easily and seamlessly, reducing the amount of time it takes to start getting a return on their investment."

InstallShield 10.5 reduces time-to-market and development costs with new features such as a network repository to share common elements, Assemblies that reuse components across different products, and the ability to edit any XML file. The new Trialware feature allows software publishers to easily build evaluation versions of software products to assist potential customers with purchase decisions. The integration of Trialware creation into the installation development process allows software publishers to launch and monetize successful new marketing and customer acquisition programs.

"With InstallShield, our OpenViz development team is able to easily build deployments for all platforms with a single tool, thereby reducing overall costs in implementation and maintenance," stated Anoop Chatterjee, manager, product development, Advanced Visual Systems (AVS). "The new features in InstallShield 10.5, such as support for MSI 3.0 and XML configuration, allow us to stay ahead with the latest deployment technologies and easily maintain our scripts. Additionally, with the Trialware feature, setting up new packages as evaluation versions is a breeze."

New InstallShield 10.5 capabilities include:

--Trialware feature: Turns full products into time-limited evaluation software with just a few, simple steps.

--MSI 3.0 Support: Provides more efficient patch management capabilities such as Patch Sequencing.

--Collaboration Design: Introduces Assemblies -- reusable, versionable, modular components that can be incorporated into many different installations.

--XML Changes View: Enables automatic updates of XML file settings on target machines, without the need to write custom code.

--Local and Network Repositories: Enables users to share and re-use common elements between multiple installation projects.

Software installation is a key component of Macrovision's Software Value Management(TM) solutions, which include software installation, updating, packaging and licensing, entitlement management, end user management, and usage optimization.

Pricing and Availability

InstallShield 10.5 is available immediately from Macrovision and a network of authorized resellers and distributors worldwide. Additional information on the complete InstallShield product line, as well as training classes and professional services is available from www.macrovision.com or by calling 800-809-5659.

About Macrovision

Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN) is the market leader in electronic licensing, installation, and digital rights management (DRM) technologies. Over 50,000 software publishers and hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies use Macrovision technologies for Software Value Management (SVM). SVM solutions bridge the gap between pricing and packaging software on the developer side, and purchasing and managing that software on the enterprise side. Macrovision's Software Technologies Group markets the FLEXnet(TM) universal licensing platform and the InstallShield suite of software installation, repackaging and update solutions, which are deployed on more than 500 million desktops worldwide. Macrovision holds more than 700 software licensing, DRM and content protection patents worldwide. Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and has offices worldwide.

More information about Macrovision and Software Value Management solutions can be found at www.macrovision.com.

This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A number of factors could cause Macrovision's actual results to differ from anticipated results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Such factors are addressed in Macrovision's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov). Macrovision assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.