"Harry Johnston [MVP]" <harry@scms.waikato.ac.nz> wrote in message
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> Michael Jennings wrote:
>
>> Freudi posted the link here yesterday, Harry:
>> http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/....aspx?q=951847
>> I can't make out any difference between the 4th and 7th items on the list
>> there.
>> Possibly they listed the same thing twice, but maybe there is a difference.
>
> Based on the packages in WSUS, I'd say that one of these installers updates
> .NET products that are already present, while the other one performs a full
> install of .NET 3.5 service pack 1 (including .NET 2 and .NET 3) regardless of
> what is already present. However, I have no idea how to tell which is which.
> (I don't think the .NET team thought this through very well.)

The Japanese might say "sa," - roughly "who knows?" or "don't ask me!" I thought
at one point it must be a stutter in the search engine, but now your guess seems
more plausible. MowGreen hasn't forgiven me for thinking he couldn't tell the
4th
from the 5th listing. The first XP service pack moves down a notch if you search
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/...spx?q=KB951847

It's important to the survival of Windows that developing application software
for
it continue to be irresistible. If the .NET team has its eye more on that than
on
mere users, then it's fulfilling its corporate responsibility, but "sa," eh?