Adobe Reader Download- if you can find it

Adobe has gone Microsoft! Instead of allowing a person to download the latest Adobe Reader® http://www.adobe.com/ complete in one file so you can install it on another system or put it onto a CD, it ONLY allows you to install ONLINE - you cannot just download the latest Reader 7.0.7 complete one time and then take it to other systems and install it - it must be done online!

 

Now if you want to include the reader on any CD that you send out that has PDFs on it so that people can actually read it - you cannot. There is NO WAY to download just the reader without using their interactive online only download system. This is just like MS XP and Office Update systems - you must be online and download to update (On MS you can get around this if you go to each and every update page one at a time and download the update file - but that takes a LONG time to do and you must be good at knowing their internal corporate structure since they put that that site since it is located based on some weird internal corporate structure projected onto a web site and not how people think.)

 

Adobe is pretty stupid in making it impossible to download the reader which they push as being UNIVERSAL. It just it not universal to download.

 

Just because you CAN download and force installation of items online does not mean you SHOULD.

 

Using the latest technology just because you can when there is no reason to use it is stupid. It is inventing problems where none existed before - and especially when they remove ALL other options of getting it.

 

The latest download methods of forcing people to only allow installs online is one such stupidity. What if you already have the latest and want a standalone backup of it? You cannot get it. And that means wasting LOTS more time going though every single update ONLINE to get back to where you were before when you reload any system. And no matter what, you WILL reload a system every 5 to 7 years due to hardware failure of drives if anything. Sooner if you upgrade hardware.