Why Microsoft Sucks Today
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Who was the wiseguy at MS that decided restricting MSI installers to one at a time was an acceptable move? Their web platform installer has to download a crap-o-la™ of goodies which is taking forever since we're currently on our backup line at work. That prevents me from installing anything else on this new development box the mean time. sigh[^] EDIT: and why do I need the development tools? So I can get the Silverlight toolkit since it's the only way to disable script debugging in Visual Studio via a hack.......
Todd Smith
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Who was the wiseguy at MS that decided restricting MSI installers to one at a time was an acceptable move? Their web platform installer has to download a crap-o-la™ of goodies which is taking forever since we're currently on our backup line at work. That prevents me from installing anything else on this new development box the mean time. sigh[^] EDIT: and why do I need the development tools? So I can get the Silverlight toolkit since it's the only way to disable script debugging in Visual Studio via a hack.......
Todd Smith
5 for the Picard picture.
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Who was the wiseguy at MS that decided restricting MSI installers to one at a time was an acceptable move? Their web platform installer has to download a crap-o-la™ of goodies which is taking forever since we're currently on our backup line at work. That prevents me from installing anything else on this new development box the mean time. sigh[^] EDIT: and why do I need the development tools? So I can get the Silverlight toolkit since it's the only way to disable script debugging in Visual Studio via a hack.......
Todd Smith
Todd Smith wrote:
Who was the wiseguy at MS that decided restricting MSI installers to one at a time was an acceptable move?
The Windows Installer team, I expect. They probably did it because the need to install multiple MSIs at once is really rare, but the need to ensure installation integrity is really common. Imagine if you had to write an MSI-based installer for a product, but also had to cater for the fact that another, unknown installer would be running at the same time, possibly updating the same registry values as you, or updating the same system files. That makes life really tricky...
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Who was the wiseguy at MS that decided restricting MSI installers to one at a time was an acceptable move? Their web platform installer has to download a crap-o-la™ of goodies which is taking forever since we're currently on our backup line at work. That prevents me from installing anything else on this new development box the mean time. sigh[^] EDIT: and why do I need the development tools? So I can get the Silverlight toolkit since it's the only way to disable script debugging in Visual Studio via a hack.......
Todd Smith
The next version they're going to bring back to the full screen backdrop to prevent you from touching anything during installation. It will also add a 'swap CD n-times' feature to recreate the nostalgia of inserting 50 floppies to complete an install. (now reboot your machine to complete reading this message)
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Who was the wiseguy at MS that decided restricting MSI installers to one at a time was an acceptable move? Their web platform installer has to download a crap-o-la™ of goodies which is taking forever since we're currently on our backup line at work. That prevents me from installing anything else on this new development box the mean time. sigh[^] EDIT: and why do I need the development tools? So I can get the Silverlight toolkit since it's the only way to disable script debugging in Visual Studio via a hack.......
Todd Smith
Probably because windows can't create proper restore points otherwise. I don't like the web platform installer either. I prefer storing msi's on my backup disk in case the download is not available in the future.
Wout
