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by mavhc 1013 days ago
As soon as Office 2007 didn't use MSI the format was doomed.

I assume the Here in NIH refers to an individual team, not MS as a whole.

Teams is entirely NIH https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows for updates to the Electron app.

I would use winget, but MS made it weirdly hard to run as a script on multiple computers, it installs per user, because... who knows.

So still using chocolatey

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To be fair, Squirrel came from GitHub and early Electron before Microsoft bought GitHub, so it wasn't Microsoft's NIH that built Squirrel originally.
True, I used NIH in the opposite meaning accidentally, I mean it was not invented at Microsoft