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title: "The \"Don box\" of windows installer?"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/6/the-quotdon-boxquot-of-windows-installer.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/6/the-quotdon-boxquot-of-windows-installer.html"
published: "2003-10-06T00:40:00"
updated: "2003-10-06T00:40:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Rob Mensching has been working at MS, primarily on the Office Setup/Deployment team, for the past 4 years or so; It figures that when he has something to say about Installer Merge Modules , it's wise to sit down and…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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---

# The "Don box" of windows installer?

By Roy Osherove October 6, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 6, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[Rob Mensching](http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/robmen)  has been working at MS, primarily on the Office Setup/Deployment team, for the past 4 years or so; It figures that when he has [something to say about Installer Merge Modules](http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/robmen/permalink.aspx/9857e0c7-2b64-4997-ad2b-a00257a65f19), it's wise to sit down and listen. I mean, he **is** the guy who actually wrote the spec for merge modules.

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