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Sorry, Adobe: Flash is the new Vista

Here’s some advice, Adobe. The first step on the road to recovery is admitting that you have a problem.

Yes, I know you’d rather frame your fight with Apple as a high-minded crusade for freedom, but your customers think differently. When I hear fellow PC users talk about Flash these days, I hear the exact same frustration and exasperation I heard during Vista’s first year on the market. That is not the kind of word of mouth you want.

And make no mistake about it, those concerns are real. Was Steve Jobs exaggerating when he called Flash the biggest source of crashes on the Mac? Maybe a little, but I bet he has some pretty grim statistics to back that statement up. And Microsoft is reinforcing that same message, albeit more politely and with masterful understatement. Here’s what IE boss Dean Hachamovitch had to say two weeks ago:

Flash does have some issues, particularly around reliability, security, and performance. We work closely with engineers at Adobe, sharing information about the issues we know of in ongoing technical discussions.

“Some issues”? Yeah, that’s one way of putting it. My own experience fits right in. I discovered yesterday that Internet Explorer crashes on my wife’s PC once or twice a day. The Windows 7 Reliability Monitor says Adobe’s Flash Player is to blame (yes, it’s up-to-date), and it offers a step-by-step solution: Uninstall the Flash Player, reboot, and reinstall Flash. (The Microsoft prescription is, in fact, the exact same set of steps I recommended right here back in January.)

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Αν και καθυστερημένος στο παιχνίδι, τελικά το έπιασε το τι συμβαίνει. Το τούβλο ο Bott. Εδώ και μήνες σας τα έχω πει, εγώ, ένας πόντιος από τη βόρεια Ελλάντα και αυτός ο επαγγελματίας "PCας" τώρα τα λέει. Καλώς τον βρε. Καλώς τον και ας άργησε.

Για χαφιές της Micro$oft πάλι πολύ καιρό σου πήρε...