What’s with all the ranting I’ve been doing lately? I should post something nice for a change :)
But before I do, I’ve got another rant... It’s about what I’m going to call “in your face” software – software that thinks it knows better than you, and that’s it’s the greatest thing since... well, since ever.
Case in point: Acrobat Reader (I’m not going to link to it: you all know what it is). I recently installed an “update” for version 7.0.7. But the “update” also installed new icons on the desktop and in my start menu. I say “new,” even though they were technically there when the first version installed itself, but I deleted them because I never use them. After all, for a program which only lets me view documents and not create new ones, why would I ever want to run it on its own? Wouldn’t I always want to just double-click a file and open it?
And, even worse than this, after installing the “update”… it asked me to reboot!!
Hello? Adobe? Reader is nothing more than a glorified notepad! In fact, not even – at least notepad lets you edit documents as well! Why on earth would I have to reboot after installing this thing?
OK, I promise my next post will be something a bit more up-beat...