• db2@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      It looks like they break Microsoft’s update mechanism somehow, and Microsoft won’t work around it. If it’s because they’d have to make special cases just for one app I get it, but it doesn’t seem like that’s what’s happening.

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        8 months ago

        they break Microsoft’s update mechanism somehow

        Microsoft’s update mechanism breaks Microsoft’s update mechanism.

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          8 months ago

          Microsoft’s update mechanism is just fucking awful trash, they should replace it with downloading an archive and unpacking it.

          They seem to think they are very smart with all those binary deltas, but it appears to be so complex that nobody inside that company understands it fully, and that’s for more than 10 years.

          Apparently people responsible for creating it still work there in important places, can’t find another explanation.