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VIRTUALISATION Office for Mac update size 'mystery' solved
VIRTUALISATION Office for Mac update size 'mystery' solved | Office for Mac update size 'mystery' solved |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 16 April 2009 | |
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In a blog post titled Microsoft Updates Office 2004 and 2008 for Vulnerabilities, an Intego official wrote "The Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.4 Update is only 9.7 MB, but the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.7 Update is a whopping 268 MB. It's not clear why there is such a difference, because Microsoft's descriptions of the two updates is the same." There's a very simple explanation, and it comes in two parts. Microsoft's practice with Office 2004 updates has been to make them incremental. So each new update requires that the previous one is already installed. So you must have Office 2004 11.5.3 installed before you can apply this week's 11.5.4 update. 11.5.3 requires 11.5.2, and so on. This has the advantage of keeping each update relatively small. The downside is that if you ever need to reinstall Office 2004, you'll have to apply multiple patches to get the suite up to date. What happens with Office 2008? And what's the other reason for the variation in updater sizes? Find out on page two. |
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