all of this nonsense, of course, is only necessary because you can't install two versions of IE side-by-side [...] still persists, either because someone in Redmond thinks it's a good idea, or just out of sheer laziness.
Or because they have bigger fish to fry. It's not like they have `define AllowMultipleIEinstalls 0 they can just flip.
Having multiple versions of any application installed side-by-side has always been a hit-or-miss feature, precisely because few people care. Hell, most of the time I want to overwrite the old version. Do you remember the days when Java was installed side-by-side, and you wound up with twelve different versions of Java? You could never be certain which one was active, and of course at least 9 of them were completely insecure by that point...
Or because they have bigger fish to fry. It's not like they have `define AllowMultipleIEinstalls 0 they can just flip.
Having multiple versions of any application installed side-by-side has always been a hit-or-miss feature, precisely because few people care. Hell, most of the time I want to overwrite the old version. Do you remember the days when Java was installed side-by-side, and you wound up with twelve different versions of Java? You could never be certain which one was active, and of course at least 9 of them were completely insecure by that point...