Why so many microsoft visual c++

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Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 What i would like to know is, are multiple sub-versions of the same major version really required ? For instance, there are 4 versions of the 'Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012', listed below for clarification: I understand that many of them will not be needed by the majority of users/applications, however i include them anyway since they provide consistency across the whole platform and we have a pretty diverse application spread which changes frequently enough. Presently, when i create either a Windows 10 VDI SOE, or a Windows Server 2016/2019 SOE for RDS/Citrix, I include almost all of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable packages from 2005 up to 2019. My question is around the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable applications/packages.