Everyone taking part in Patch Tuesday step forward. NOT SO FAST, Adobe! Adobe has pushed back the release date for a planned security fix in Acrobat and Reader. The company said that the patch for both Windows and OS X versions of Reader and Acrobat due for tomorrow will instead arrive next week. The delay will give the company time to iron out problems spotted during testing, the company said in …
They patch it several times a month. They do not add ANY new functions, certainly not visible ones. And yet their program is still crashing frequently, usually several times a day. Each time it crashes, my browser is locked up for a while until it releases.
Let me guess. Since Adobe has no good news, they just create bad news. At least we're still noticing them, eh?
Actually, I think they're a kind of nice company in some ways, but they need to FIX their software.
>>> How is it possible for Adobe's software to be so bad?
>>> They patch it several times a month.
That's *why* it's so bad. Any changes tend to corrupt the original design. A software engineer will tell you that the first place to look for bugs in any piece of software is the part that has had lots of bug fixes recently.
>> They patch it several times a month.
>That's *why* it's so bad
Certainly, but let's not overlook the fact that anyone who needs to patch so frequently hasn't put any thinking into the coding.
Personally, I also suspect they do just patch to keep themselves in people's minds. If anyone has a patch regime, the first thing you think of is, "how often do we update adobe?" I just say thank-you to Chrome and FF and don't bother installing at all.
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Unfortunately, we have to use Adobe Reader to interact with some Government websites that use document signing features in PDF forms. We have switched to PDFXChange for everyone else, but there are a handful of users who still have Adobe Reader installed (and of course, the version just released to address security concerns won't be officially supported - if there's a problem accessing these government forms, just roll back to the insecure version!)
Just went to the Flash Player distribution page, where you can download the latest installers for Flash. The page says it's version 15.0.0.152 but when you download the files (active x or the plugin) they are both still version 14. Someone at Adobe needs a serious ass whoopin'.
The only sane, responsible and professional method of updating insecure software is ASAP UPDATING. That's what I call it. This concept of 'Second Tuesday' updating, or any set schedule of updating is 100% ridiculous and indefensible. I've heard outrageous defense of scheduled updating from outrageous people. They're consistently faulty in their bent out of shape assertions.
That Adobe delayed the Acrobat & Reader updates is excellent. Release them when they're ready. But also keep in mind that holding back security updates is plain old insane.
Please chatter away attempting to defend the sacred Tuesdays, but I'll just be laughing in response.
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