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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by Negitivefrags on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @03:53PM (#19266844)
The need for windows update to be working to install the VS2017 redist was a super annoying move by microsoft.

It wasn't required for previous versions of visual studio.

Because windows update is non-functional for so many windows users (mostly due to piracy) we we basically forced to change to static linking to avoid the need for the redist.

Of course, after we changed to static linking we started to run into a bunch of virus scanners giving false positives with their heuristics because all viruses are statically linked.

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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by mark-r on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @05:28PM (#19267516)
Thank you for that info, I didn't realize it was a deliberate move by Microsoft! Luckily my Windows installation wasn't pirated; I never did figure out why the updates stopped working.
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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by ConceptJunkie on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:34PM (#19267161)
That's because the VS redistributables now add extra functionality to the OS. It's insane.
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