I think the team at Adobe are doing a tremendous job. They put out great products like PhotoShop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Flash - all which are a core part of my daily web development and web life.

I think however, that Adobe may be doing too good of a job. I would love to see their road map - where they expect to go with their products. They must have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of developers working day in and day out to produce the 15 UPDATES I receive for Adobe products on a DAILY basis.

Now - updates are a good thing, they usually make good software better, fix any security holes, buffer overflows, that sort of thing, but the Adobe update process is TERRIBLE. It takes several hours to find updates for all the products I have installed, it often crashes, and rarely finishes.

Anywhoo - simple thing, but thought I'd show you how to turn these off.

From within any Adobe product, chose "Updates..." from the Help menu:

Then click Preferences:

Then select the options you prefer (in my case - NONE).

So in short - Adobe, please update your updater, and maybe fix a few of those Flash bugs that Macromedia could never find.

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