Linked by Kroc Camen on Fri 6th Nov 2009 22:30 UTC
Click-to-Run is a new technology Microsoft are introducing to allow you to test out Office 2010 quickly and easily, by literally streaming the app to your computer from the Internet into a virtualised space.
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2005-07-06
Microsoft has really built up a reputation for poor installation experiences. Take today: I tried installing *just OneNote* from an Office 2007 Small Business Edition CD, onto a system that had Office 2007 Enterprise already installed, and it just failed. Nothing much changed, but OneNote was nowhere to be found. A month ago, I tried to install Expression Studio 3. What should have been a two-step process (uninstall Expression Studio 2, then install v3), turned out to be about 6 (very long, laggy) steps, since it turned out I couldn't uninstall v2 all at once, but needed to do it in pieces. Similar (but even more long and painful) story for upgrading from MS-SQL Server 2005 to 2008: First uninstalling 10 separate components, then running an installer for a web-based installer, then running the web-based installer itself, only to find out that I need a new version of the Windows installer(!), which I need to track down and install myself from MS's website, then restart, then try again, wait 2 hours for the download, and then find out that it got corrupted; try the download again, still no luck--then Google it and find a direct link to the actual install EXE, which finally does the trick. It couldn't be more ridiculous if I made it up but *I AM NOT JOKING!!!!* Anyone who thinks Microsoft has progressed from the good old days of 6-hour-long Visual Studio.NET installations has been deluded! If anything there are more types of installers and ways of installing things that the various arms of MS have come up with, all somehow incompatible with each other and designed to waste as much of your time as is humanly possible.
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So all I can say is, I hope this new thing works better. But after 15 years of having experienced the same old crap, I have my doubts. At least it's isolated from all the other programs on your system, which is decidedly more Mac-like. If only *every* Windows program used such a method, installing applications on Windows might actually be fixed. (Because it would basically be just like a Mac at that point
Seriously, Macs have had this thing down to a science (an incredibly easy to implement one at that) since forever, so it's amazing it's taken this long for MS to finally take a hint.
Edited 2009-11-06 23:14 UTC