CRT, do we still need to redistribute it ?

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Published on 2010-04-14T20:50:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 20:52 UTC
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Do we still need to bother with vcredist.exe when distributing windows native applications ? Does any of these come bundled with Win-7 ?

If not, are there any technical reasons these are not shipped to people via e.g. windows update - insteadof letting us burden the customers with yet-another-thing-that.must-work ? (Ok, that might sound argumentative, but I'm really wondering the reason these libraries are not default installed/updated on windows machines)

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