> Really? That's interesting. So how do you explain the fact that I keep 
> having to manually install it?
>
> Oh, wait - you probably meant it comes with Vista.

It's also an MS automatic update download for XP (and included in some XP 
SP) IIRC.  So if you're in a company and have the updates managed locally 
then it should be fairly trivial to push it out to all XP machines.

> The 25 to 30 minutes was just thrashing the HD back and forth.

Sounds like you were running low on hard disc space or RAM, how old was the 
machine?

> In other words, it makes things easier for the developers, not the end 
> users.

Making things easier for developers has a positive knock-on effect for 
users.

Anyway, I would guess that most people have some version of .net installed 
by now anyway so I doubt it's such a big issue as a few years back.

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