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Re:The difficulty of installing additional applica

Posted by: MikeFM on May 28, 2005 09:31 AM
My experience is that non-techie Windows users ask their techie friends and family for help buying and installing their software. I almost never see these usual Joes installing office suites or much of anything else without help or a lot of suffering. How many times have I gone to a friends house to fix their computer to find a stack of programs they've purchased but never gotten to install? Then you get the program that is installed but has evidently been installed 10 times in an effort to get the program working. It's certainly not an easy process for most users.

Then we won't even get into uninstallation in Windows. Even experienced techies sometimes fear to try that.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)

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