Adobe’s Prolific Updates: A humorous side?

By Jim Hillier / 05/09/2013 / 1 Comment / Humor, Software

The endless stream of updates for Adobe’s range of products, including the commonly installed Flash Player and Reader, are not really a laughing matter. The only “joke” involved is the fact that the software should require updating so frequently… now that is a joke.

Fortunately, web comic site XKCD is around to add a little humor into the situation with a cartoon labeled “All Adobe Updates”:

Very clever… and don’t you just love how there are only the two action buttons included, “OK” or “Download”. Not a huge choice there!

As with many cartoons from XKCD, there is a little bonus available by hovering your mouse cursor over the image:

Anyway, better go now… just received a new update message from Adobe. 🙂

About The Author

Jim Hillier

Jim is the resident freeware aficionado at DCT. A computer veteran with 30+ years experience who first started writing about computers and tech back in the days when freeware was actually free. His first computer was a TRS-80 in the 1980s, he progressed through the Commodore series of computers before moving to PCs in the 1990s. Now retired (aka an old geezer), Jim retains his passion for all things tech and still enjoys building and repairing computers for a select clientele... as well as writing for DCT, of course.

1 thought on “Adobe’s Prolific Updates: A humorous side?”

RandiO
05/11/2013 at 1:55 pm
Thank you,
Adobe and its update warnings have truly become that boy that cried wolf one too many times.
When I get such a prompt in my Firefox and I absolutely need to watch something relevant, I usually divert the link with the FF add-on for open page/link in IE.

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