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Being one of the most prolific sources of security vulnerabilities in Windows and other platforms, Adobe Flash Player needs no introduction. In spite of that reputation, and the fact that the rest of the industry is moving away from Flash, 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 was glad when the Adobe Flash Player Updater was released in March. Finally the day had come when our machines would be silently updated with the latest Flash version... or so I thought. It'd just seem Adobe is making all possible efforts to make its software more bloated and less attractive to all consumers, here's why.
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1 person liked this |Ed Mann said:
This does seem like a bit of a "Waaaaaaaaaahmbulance" story.NOT!I agree 100% with Per Hansson's assessment of Flash. I have over 100 machines to look after and at first I welcomed Adobe's promise to automatically update Flash. Scripting uninstalls and reinstalls was time consuming and tedious given Flash's weekly new security vulnerabilities. As if Adobe doesn't already take more than enough of my money for Acrobat, they want to give me bloatware they have sold-off to google and mcafee? Adobe is no friend of the system administrator.
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Yet another flash bashing post, just install Google Chrome and get over it already. When your using Internet Explorer what do you expect? Also please stop spouting the HTML5 to replace Flash crap already. Flash ins't going to disappear anytime soon, so quit complaining.
really? flash is already dead on mobile because of html5. you dont need flash anymore for youtube. flash is on its last leg. adobe flat out sucks. what good does chrome do? all it does is have garbage flash directly integrated into it. that's exactly what I want a crappy plugin integrated into my browser.
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I wish I could find proof, but there is one nagging thing about your opinion piece here that bothers me... Windows 8 is not the first Microsoft-based operating system that came pre-bundled with a version of Flash. I don't recall if it was Win95 or Win98, but one of those two (I'm quite sure) had a very, very early version of Flash preinstalled.
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