It was mostly a problem when you were having a conversation with someone that went something like... "So I was installing .NET and it failed because I didn't h

It was mostly a problem when you were having a conversation with someone that went something like... "So I was installing .NET and it failed because I didn't have the right drivers for my SCSI card." "What? I've never needed disk drivers to install .NET, which version was it? 1.1?" "No, it was 2003" or... "Can you install .NET on my PC?" "Sure, done" "Where's Word and Excel?" "What?"