Windows is built up of interdependent software pieces called DLLs* | |
During installations one vendor's DLLs may replace another's -> BAD! | |
Worst offenders: Intuit (Quicken), Microsoft, games vendors. | |
Better vendors: most popular freeware and shareware. |
DLL: Dynamic Linked Library. Macintosh computers don't have this problem.
See also: GameCenter DLL Hell,
Livingstone's
4 part series in InfoWorld: 1, 2, 3, 4
and his more recent articles: Windows 98
solution ... and new ways to
avoid DLL hell