From what I read in this article, Microsoft are just about to do one of their favourite coding pastimes - making something simpler by making it more complicated. That is, at the end-user level something seems simple, but deeper down it's a complete mess. So in return for making things easier at one sight, there is now a thousand things more that can go wrong.
Microsoft have been doing this since MS-DOS. The What kind of people code for them? Jellybrains? Idiots? People who just don't care? I mean, why keep kludging this piece of crap they call an OS with half-baked fixes like this? It's not even in the name of compatibility, in this case. It's just f'ing stupid.
Everyone knows the best way to keep track of shared runtime libraries is to KEEP THEM ALL IN THE SAME PLACE, not tag them in some binary list where a million things can go wrong. That's just dumb, dumb, dumb! And you can keep a list of loaded DLLs in memory with version strings. Amiga did this in '82. Microsoft won't ever figure out that the most efficient way sometimes really is the best way. That's why their software will always suck.
