Re: There is no .NET in Vista Code?

Jim Cooper wrote:

I imagine it will be, considering that the .NET Framework is already
part of Windows Update.

Is it? Cool bananas.

I think that Joel Spolsky put it best in his classic
"Please Sir May I Have a Linker?" article :

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/PleaseLinker.html

"How do you install the runtime? The 'easiest' way
is through Windows Update. But Windows Update really
wanted me to get all the critical updates first
before I installed the runtime. That's reasonable,
right? Two of the 'critical' updates were a Windows
service pack and a new version of Internet Explorer,
both of which required a reboot.

All told, for each computer I needed to run this
little .NET application on, I had to download
something like 70 or 80 MB (good thing we have a
fast net connection) and reboot three or four times.
And this is at a software company! I know how long
it took, because the first time it started downloading,
I put Office Space on the big screen TV, and by the
time the movie was over, the installation process
was almost finished. Every ten minutes during the
movie I had to jump up, go to each computer,
and hit OK to some stupid dialog box".

<snip>

"If we asked our trial users, usually small
organizations and home users, to go through a
movie-length installation hell just to try our app,
I think we'd probably lose 95% of them. These are
not customers yet, they're prospects, and I can't
afford to give up 95% of my prospects just to use
a nicer development environment".
.

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