Why are there so many Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable installations on my computer? Surely one for each year is enough?
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Each program will require a specific version of the library, and if 2 programs point to slightly different versions we can’t just pick 1 because, while unlikely, using the wrong version could result in different things happening.
So, why so many versions? Well, patches mainly. A lot of bugs get found over the course of a year, and they (hopefully) get fixed as fast as they are found. Waiting a full year to release a bugfix would be frustrating to users, and possibly downright dangerous if the bug is a security flaw. So, many releases happen each year.
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