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Re:Ask HN: Why are Microsoft software installations so slow? by buraktamturk on Saturday April 21, 2018 @08:28PM (#16894111)
I don't know about the "new versions" of Visual Studio 2017. But VS from 2008 to 2015 installs very slowly (IO wasn't the bottleneck), triple the installation time if the iso file has service packs (I remember that they are applied in "Finalising your setup" progress with bars showing 100%). The latter one is also applies to Office setup.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are Microsoft software installations so slow? by megaman22 on Saturday April 21, 2018 @08:42PM (#16894152)
2017 installs pretty quickly, mostly, I think because you can customize the install for the bits you need. But even then, it's much improved, which is good, because they are pushing large updates almost weekly at this point.
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