We already looked into installing ANT with Force.com support in Linux in this post which is pretty simple fire up some commands in terminal, Boom !!! your Linux machine is ready to rock and roll with ANT. But Windows 
(which I usually don't prefer for development , but most of the office machines run windows , including mine ) ...
Ant is a command-line utility tool used for moving metadata between a local directory and a Salesforce organization and vice versa.
The Force.com Migration Tool is a Java/Ant-based command-line utility for moving metadata between a local directory and a Salesforce organization. Hope many of them using this tool for the deployment.In this post I am not going to explain how to install and configure the tool.To know more about installation and configuration please click here. If you are using this tool below are the some tips which will help you in your deployment.
