Installer Renaissance

First it was Adobe. Then Apple. Now even Microsoft is making the software installation process more sensible and trouble-free.

I tell ya, it’s enough to make a Systems Boy cry, I tell ya.

I tell ya.

This entry was written by systemsboy, posted on September 14, 2007 at 12:58 AM, filed under Applications, Humor. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

5 Comments

  1. Jay Young
    Posted September 14, 2007 at 11:12 AM | Permalink

    It made me cry. However, that might have just been that it was a mention of “Office”

  2. systemsboy
    Posted September 14, 2007 at 4:30 PM | Permalink

    Hold me.

    -SB

  3. gilburns
    Posted February 8, 2008 at 12:57 AM | Permalink

    Please don’t encourage Adobe. Their CS3 installer system is a joke. It simply doesn’t work right.

    Have you looked at the Adobe forums and seen all the issues people have trying to install CS3? Why do you think they had to put out that uninstaller that would rip out CS3?

    They should have used the native installer for each of the platforms. On Windows they should have used MSI, and on Mac OS X they should have used PKG.

  4. systemsboy
    Posted February 8, 2008 at 3:00 PM | Permalink

    gilburns,

    Yeah, I had all kinds of problems uninstalling the Photoshop beta myself. I didn’t even know there was an uninstaller (that worked, anyway), so I ended up removing it by hand. Very irritating. And their installers are all different and inconsistent. And they still don’t work in any sort of user-friendly way with ASR. All true and just criticisms. But hey, anything beats those shitty-ass VISE installers they used to use.

    Anything.

    -systemsboy

  5. Anonymous
    Posted August 12, 2008 at 6:03 AM | Permalink

    New software installation solution for Windows.

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