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Here is my "Rant Of The Day": Why in the world does it take longer to install Visual Studio 2005 than it takes to install the entire operating system? My goodness, you would think that it could at least be comparable. This is horrible. It's like with each new release of Visual Studio it gets worse too.

On the bright side, when I'm installing Visual Studio 2005, I have enough time to get a cup of coffee, go to a movie with the misses, and read the entire novel War And Peace. Okay, I admit that might be an exaggeration. Not by much though, I swear :P. Don't even get me started on the time it takes to uninstall it. Wow, truly tremendous.

I suppose I should give a disclaimer first. I absolutely love Visual Studio 2005 as a product, I do, I promise. The install process is abysmal though. I feel like if I were to go to hell, my penance would be having to install Visual Studio 2005 over, and over, and over, and over, and over, forever and ever, amen. I can't close it without at least one Chandler-ism though (if you're not a Friends fan, you can safely ignore this): Could Installing Visual Studio _BE_ any longer?

Yikes!