>Previous examples for example being software that requires Microsoft SQL server to be installed on client machines as the software needs certain dll files that

>Previous examples for example being software that requires Microsoft SQL server to be installed on client machines as the software needs certain dll files that comes with Microsoft SQL server. This is on Microsoft as much as it's on the said devs - Windows packaging/distribution is such a mess - registry being the primary source of problems. And Microsoft doesn't do a good job of packaging stuff. At least they are moving in the right direction with .NET core and nuget, ship the whole VM with the app, reference stuff that you need as packages - hopefully you will be able to zip the dist folder and everything will run without the user needing to install anything.