On build 16226 of Win 10 x64, VMWare Workstation 12 won't install. It get hung up on installing the Visual C++ 2008 Redist package. There's tons of threads about VMWare install failing on this error and even more on the Visual C++ 2008 in general. None of the fixes have worked.
Product: Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.6161 -- Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.VC90.ATL,version="9.0.30729.6161",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",processorArchitecture="x86",type="win32"'. Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x800736B3. assembly interface: IAssemblyCacheItem, function: Commit, component: {03329364-ED3E-3EF1-ACB0-C1E9F5282929}
One could say this is a Microsoft problem, but VMWare Workstation is the only program that wants to install this 10 year old package and guess what, Microsoft isn't likely going to fix this...