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ISTR a got an actual useful outcome from a support incident related to a bug in the runtime libraries shipped with Visual Studio 2005. Support gave me a hotfix.

Sadly the hotfix had its own little bug: installing it took about 20 hours. Office productivity was rather low for the rest of the day. I don’t know everything that goes on under the hood with Microsoft’s installers, but wow they’re slow.

I, blissfully, don’t use Visual Studio on Windows any more :)



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