release management - What's the principle of installers in windows? -

IMO can not run on a PE executable platform.

I think the installer packs executables for various CPU architectures, and selects one after some detecting work.

But is it that big companies like MS release their products?

Microsoft releases only two desktop cpu, x86 and x86-64. They generally use different executives for each, for example, (x86) and (x86-64).

However, they use a joint installer in some cases, such as.