He makes a valid point about the seemingly unnecessary ties between components during an upgrade. The same pattern can be seen when updating Office for Mac. Ev

He makes a valid point about the seemingly unnecessary ties between components during an upgrade. The same pattern can be seen when updating Office for Mac. Every single time the Office updater insists I close all browsers, including Chrome and Firefox, to apply a Word or Excel update. Nothing from any other vendor exhibits this pattern on a Mac (a Unix system BTW). The author may have an anti-MS history, but he is spot on in questioning these unnecessary tie-ins. I use Mac, Linux desktops, and Windows regularly, and these simple user interaction failures make the latter a pain to work with.