This is another dumb *****ic Flash bashing article. I have never ever had any issue with Flash nor with Java.
To use your own quote "
This line tells me everything"
I'm glad you have never had any issues with
Flash nor
SUN JRE now
Oracle, but when looking over the CVE reports for said software I think you are quite alone, indeed one of the largest reasons for systems getting infected with malware is due to end-users using outdated versions of these two softwares! (And Adobe sure does not help end-users with their dysfunctional software updaters)
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I have to wonder if qualms such as these played a role in Steven Sinofsky's departure, but that's another discussion."
Thinking that is so dumb and mindless that tells me the rest of the article is a bunch of crap.
Associating an issue with an updater with an entire technology let me see your lack of sight.
Let me answer this by simply using a longer quote from my own editorial, but with some added sources of information, the most prolific being
Sinofsky himself.
"Microsoft surprised many of us by bundling the software with its operating system for the first time with Windows 8. This is after previously announcing that they wouldn't allow Flash in the Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 -- a decision the company later reversed. I have to wonder if qualms such as these played a role in Steven Sinofsky's departure, but that's another discussion."
I wonder why you, the author of this article, are not developing amazing apps with your brillant mind instead of writing crap.
Because I am not a software developer, would you ask a fireman why he does not perform brain surgery too?
Flash is awesome, for years and years you would have had plain dead web if wasn't thanks to Flash that allowed to create amazing stuff, no video no nothing.
So plain and simple screw you...
You remember me to the author of semmiacurate news, a poor guy that talks about everything and does nothing.
If you think that amazing web technologies could not have been made without Flash through the years that tells me that you, just as I am not a software developer.
Thanks for comparing me with Charlie Demerjian, he wrote for example
this article which in the end resulted in
Apple, Dell et all suing
nVidia over their improper underfill used for several series of GPU's, causing endless problems with dying GPU's, especially in laptops for end-users.
Very nice recommendation, thank you! It really shows when one guy out of Adobe can write a software updater in his spare time that works better than their own!
on such envs admins will take care of updating machines too by giving updater processes enough privileges or by running massive update software. this article lacks of foundations.
You actually believe that is the case for most large corporate networks? Boy do I have some bad news for you, one of the main reasons I wrote this article is from the point of the view of a big corporation. Because I work in one and there the Adobe updater surely does not work well unless you make the end-users local administrators of their own systems. And let me just refrain from explaining what a nightmare that would be! (And yes, I'm aware there are ways around this, but I'm not the IT guy at the company I work for).