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Well, they are probably replacing a file which is currently in use on which other files depend on. While there may be other solutions to that problem, rebooting is the least error prone one and people are already used to having to reboot their computer after updates.

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That's a shitty excuse to reboot; sounds more like they didn't want to bother. If you do your job properly, errors can be handled. If you do your job properly, errors aren't simply hex values.

Maybe people were used to reboot their computers 7 years ago but these days, you can entirely work and reboot only for system patches.

Yes, you are obviously right. They obviously didn't want to put up with error handling, as you can tell by the crappy error messages they implemented. Basically, they said "fck it, just reboot".

Anyone who uses Windows 7 is definitely not used to having to reboot their computer all the time. Most updates don't need a reboot. Heck, it's even possible to install the entire MS Office Suite and even some Visual Studio components without rebooting.

But maybe Apple uses a toolkit that is supposed to be compatible with older versions of Windows as well. In that case, just reboot that dinosaur.

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