On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Garrett Serack <garre...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> MSI files are actually Windows Structured Storage files 
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380369%28v=VS.85%29.aspx).
>
> In order that older tools and OSes can read them, they really can't change 
> the fundamentals of how the files are written and store data. I can't see 
> them ever adding a compression layer on top of structured storage (they'll 
> tell ya to compress it yourself before storing it).

In that case MSI could (un)compress these parts, right?

Olaf

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