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Another Update, Another Broken Outlook

It's reasonable enough I suppose, but annoying none the less. Everytime a new update comes down through Windows update, it breaks Office 2007 Beta 2 by "updating" some of its DLLs to older versions. Fortunately, the repair functionality in the office installer seems to fix it but it means waiting around for 15 minutes or so while it gets fixed. It would be nice if Windows Update checked that the file it is replacing is the one it expects to be replacing before going ahead - it would avoid all kinds of problems like this.

Sigh.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 14th, 2006 at 8:16 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the Atom feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Another Update, Another Broken Outlook”

  1. Russell Coker Says:
    September 14th, 2006 at 11:49 am

    No, what Windows needs is a package management system like DPKG or RPM.

    Then when it updates some DLLs it would update the package that contains it. The package management system could compare the package version and not install an older version.

    Also when changing packages it could track dependencies, if a package depends on a particular version of a package then an upgrade would not proceed unless you wish to remove the package that depends on it.

    These are all things we have been doing on Debian and RPM based systems for 10+ years now. MS just needs to copy this technology.


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