reaches 100 million downloads, a 2009 report from The H.Technology improved a lot and still improving daily basic to make the environment more stable and easy to work.Hosted on SourceForge, source code for the Platform is licensed under the GPL, with parts under the MIT licence. Version 10.0.1 of the Platform is available to download from the project's site existing users can update by clicking "Manage Apps" and then "Check for Updates". More details about the platform can be found in the Platform Features page. Under options, users can enable the Show Only Open Source Apps setting for the App Directory A type-to-find search feature has also been added to make it quicker and easier to find installed apps.
Other new features include support for both automated and customisable folders, also referred to as categories, and the addition of advanced options to, for example, hide the word "Portable" in app names, automatically launch applications and hide splash screens.
Users who only want open source apps can tick the "Show Only Open Source Apps" box under the Advanced tab in Options. The built-in Portable App Directory app store allows users to find, download and install new applications including web browsers, games, utilities, educational tools, office suites, image editors and chat applications. The Portable App Directory includes a variety of applications, many of which are open source
For those who want to have particular fonts available to their apps from any system, the platform can carry fonts, including TrueType, OpenType and TrueType Collections, so that they don't need to be installed on each local machine to be used by the portable software. Version 10 of the platform for portable apps includes a new theming engine with multiple chrome styles and improvements to the application updater, which automatically alerts users to newer versions of installed apps and offers to upgrade them. Once installed, the applications run completely from the drive and can be used on any Windows computer. Haller explained that with the Platform, users can install a variety of free and open source applications to portable storage such as a USB flash drive or external hard drive.
has announced the release of version 10, code-named "Leo", of the project's open source portable software platform for Windows.
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