Comments on: How a Normal Upgrade to Flash Player Ruined Two Days of My Life http://thecontentwrangler.com/2008/07/22/how_a_normal_upgrade_to_flash_player_ruined_two_days_of_my_life/ Content is a business asset worthy of being managed Fri, 18 May 2012 01:51:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rhonda http://thecontentwrangler.com/2008/07/22/how_a_normal_upgrade_to_flash_player_ruined_two_days_of_my_life/comment-page-1/#comment-375 Rhonda Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:59:33 +0000 http://localhost:8888/ee/?p=325#comment-375 <p>I’ve recently had a couple of horrible experiences with Adobe software installation and pricing. When I did get to Support, they were good, but getting to that point was frustrating and incredibly time-sucking, and all because of some really useless error messages on installation. </p> <p> For details on my Acrobat 9 installation nightmare (which ended up being my environment where the new Adobe product would not play well with older Adobe products and would not give me a way to find and uninstall them), see: <a href="http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/acrobat-9-installation-issues/" rel="nofollow">http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/acrobat-9-installation-issues/</a> </p> <p> For my diatribe about Adobe pricing policies in other parts of the world, see: <a href="http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/how-do-they-get-away-with-it/" rel="nofollow">http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/how-do-they-get-away-with-it/</a> </p> <p> And joy of joys, when I do receive Captivate 3 I’ll probably go through some of the same stuff… </p> <p> Thanks for the ‘heads up’ on Flash Player - I just installed the latest version on my brand new laptop so if Captivate has installation problems, I’ll look there first. </p> I’ve recently had a couple of horrible experiences with Adobe software installation and pricing. When I did get to Support, they were good, but getting to that point was frustrating and incredibly time-sucking, and all because of some really useless error messages on installation.

For details on my Acrobat 9 installation nightmare (which ended up being my environment where the new Adobe product would not play well with older Adobe products and would not give me a way to find and uninstall them), see: http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/acrobat-9-installation-issues/

For my diatribe about Adobe pricing policies in other parts of the world, see: http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/how-do-they-get-away-with-it/

And joy of joys, when I do receive Captivate 3 I’ll probably go through some of the same stuff…

Thanks for the ‘heads up’ on Flash Player – I just installed the latest version on my brand new laptop so if Captivate has installation problems, I’ll look there first.

]]> By: Larry Kollar http://thecontentwrangler.com/2008/07/22/how_a_normal_upgrade_to_flash_player_ruined_two_days_of_my_life/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Larry Kollar Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:52:57 +0000 http://localhost:8888/ee/?p=325#comment-374 <p>5. Trusting Adobe, or any large corporation, is a crapshoot at best. </p> 5. Trusting Adobe, or any large corporation, is a crapshoot at best.

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