Adobe Gets Regular On Security Patches 38
dasButcher writes "Adobe joins Microsoft and Oracle on regularly scheduled security patch releases. The first set of patches for Acrobat and Reader are scheduled for today, and Adobe will release future patch batches quarterly."
Only quarterly??? (Score:4, Insightful)
Quarterly makes sense for non-security patches but for critical security patches I hope they go "off-cycle."
For critical security vulnerabilities, I would like a beta patch OR workaround ASAP and a tested patch as soon as practical.
Re:Acrobat Reader is crap (Score:3, Insightful)
The problem is all the crap Adobe has shoehorned into the PDF format like JavaScript and all those plugins. If PDF went back to what it should be, a document format with no extra crap, the problems will go away.
PDF and Acrobat need to go back to a core focus on being a way to represent documents and other things in a way that looks the same no matter what OS, screen resolution or browser you are running and ditch all the extra garbage that has made Acrobat and Acrobat Reader so bloated.
Re:Acrobat Reader is crap (Score:3, Insightful)
kinkos can print word docs
Printing a Word doc at Kinkos is like hiring chef Emeril Lagasse to serve you McDonalds food on a silver platter.
If you're going all the way to Kinkos to print something professionally, you probably want some control over what the output is going to look like. Word gives you none. A Word document can look different on two computers running the same version of Windows and the same version of Word with the same fonts, just because your default printer is different.
Re:Acrobat Reader is crap (Score:1, Insightful)
Patching would could be a non-issue... (Score:3, Insightful)
Ah, anyone remember the good ol' days of Adobe, when it was just a fucking reader??
Sorry if I'm being crass, but a damn PDF reader should not be 100MB worth of installer followed up with 20MB "patches". Damn Adobe v5 installer was 5MB, and guess what? v5 does everything I need it to do, and would likely suffice for 95% of Adobe users who do nothing more than view PDFs.
Everything else is going low-cal, low-carb, lite and dry, how about a simple PDF reader?
Re:Acrobat Reader is crap (Score:5, Insightful)
That glorified "doc reader" can do far more than you think, Adobe makes it possible to have a document in a file, with all of the features of a website.
And that's a good thing... why,again? PDF is supposed to be a portable doc format for predictable, portable printing, not a blasted website.
Adobe? (Score:0, Insightful)