Crooked Spin

From the beta list of a new Windows product:

If some of you haven’t noticed, there is a problem with the installer configuration for the Beta 2 installer which makes it NOT completely remove/replace/uninstall the old version. Due to this bug in the installer configuration, you MUST do a manual uninstall from the Add/Remove applications panel before installing the second beta.

The use of installers and uninstallers for normal apps on Windows is appalling. Microsoft really should have given up the practice when they designed Windows 95 or at least for Windows 2000/XP. The drag and drop of bundles on Mac OS X is so much easier and convenient that it’s not funny. Installers simply add another level of complexity and give another place where something can go wrong. KISS.

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