What is the difference between .wim and .xpi?
- Extension
- .wim
- .xpi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Data
- Developer
- Microsoft
- W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group
- Description
- It is a file-based disk image format created by Microsoft for its latest Windows OS releases, Windows Server 2008 and the Windows Vista. Windows Imaging Format (wim), is used for the standard installation method of the OS.
- Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) is a binary XML format for exchange of data on a computer network. It was developed by the W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group and is one of the most prominent efforts to encode XML documents in a binary data format, rather than plain text. Using EXI format reduces the verbosity of XML documents as well as the cost of parsing. Improvements in the performance of writing (generating) content depends on the speed of the medium being written to, the methods and quality of actual implementations.
- MIME Type
- application/x-ms-wim
- application/x-xpinstall
- Wikipedia
- .wim on Wikipedia
- .xpi on Wikipedia