In my last post, “OK. I’m Old,” I confessed to being off my computer for several months. I especially was upset with whatever is going on between Microsoft and Adobe in relation to Adobe Acrobat Reader. Mostly, I was miffed because I hadn’t seen any alerts that Adobe was both no longer a part of the Windows 10 basic operating system, and that Adobe didn’t seem to have provided any indication that a different version of Reader was needed for Windows 10. I assumed that there was yet one more conflict between Adobe and Microsoft, whether I addressed that directly or not.
Well, today I was cleaning up a lot of outdated unread mail from this period. In my gmail account, I found all these messages from Adobe about this “new” product for Windows 8 touch devices. I never opened any of them (remember: I wasn’t using the computer for much at all), and so never realized that there were upgrades that didn’t automatically occur through my Google Chrome browser. I guess I was wrong.
Mind you, it looks to me as though someone at the Microsoft Store went into the app description to state that it also works for all versions of Windows 10, touchscreen device or not. So… I’m just letting you know that I should have checked all my old emails before complaining about all these new programmatic changes that are needed to keep our old favorites in newer and “better” operating systems, whether Windows based, iOS, or Android driven.
Mea culpa.
#educ_dr
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