Oddly, some of the biggest delays in updating my fresh vista box (including part of the ie8 delay) were due to the update requiring user intervention, but popping the user intervention dialog *under* the main update progress dialog. It's luck if the user sees the dialog.
So score one for our install speed, and score another for our unattended updates. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Mike Belshe <[email protected]> wrote: > That's the advantage of knowing users have a forced path to install your > product. While firefox, safari, opera, and chrome all focus on install > speed, Microsoft doesn't. They know they'll get it on your box under all > circumstances. So they just don't care. Sad. > Think about the man-years (or man-lives) lost waiting for IE8 installs > around the world! > > Mike > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Chrome installs in finite time, whereas (judging by how long my >> Vista box has been saying "installing IE8") IE8 seems >> to require infinite time to install. >> >> I don't know how many people actually sit there and >> wait for software updates to finish, but lordy, >> watching ie8 update is like watching paint dry, >> maybe we could do a funny ad on the topic. >> >> >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
