Only from those zany folks of Microsoft... - Brass Hammer

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Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

Only from those zany folks of Microsoft... - Tyaris Major

In the immortal words of Orson Welles, "you exaggerate".

While it is true that you need to keep applying updates, the 11.3.5 update is a combo one, that will update anything from the original Microsoft Office 2004 11.0.0 onwards. From there, yes, you do need to apply 11.3.6, 11.3.7, 11.3.8 and 11.3.9.

It would be nice if they would merge their updates into combo ones periodically, however Adobe and Apple do the same thing, particularly with Adobe's Acrobat updates (7.0.5, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9) and Apple Java updates (1.3.1/1.4.2 update, Java Update 4, Java Update 5, Java Update 6).

Personally, I think 2 successive delta (incremental) updates is enough, and at most, every third update should be a combo.

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