[jamus]

So we get our Office 2008 licenses today and I install one on the sacrificial cow of a machine we call the "tester Mac"...
In the flurry of snippets displayed during the install I catch something about Silverlight being installed. I have avoided Silverlight like the plague and now I have it forced on me with the Office 2008 install? No word in the sys reqs that it was required, but it got installed.

Does anyone know if it is mandatory to be installed? Can Office 2008 run without it being installed? I saw no checkboxes in the custom install allowing me to leave it off.

I am chalking this one up as one more sneaky tactic of pushing Silverlight on computers whether people want it or not.



*Interestingly enough, I went out to a Silverlight enabled web site after the install and both Safari and Firefox still say I need to install Silverlight on my computer even though I can see that it was actually installed by the Office 2008 installer. WTH?

[albloom]

Did it really install? My machine shows a receipt for Silverlight, but nothing with
that name is on my HD. No plug-in anyway.

What I see is a "webloc" document. Double-clicking it takes you to the MS page
where Silverlight can be downloaded.

No harm, no foul.

[jamus]

Yep, I tracked down the webloc file and did not know where to look for other items it might have put there. I tested my machine with a Silverlight site and the site would not work, so I was not sure if it put some items on the machine for local access only (say with Word or Excel) and not necessarily with a browser.

Microsoft's site has been pretty tight-lipped about it so far with not responses from their tech support.