Not only that, I see the complaints are widespread; it’s not just a few people posting on random blogs here and there. As you say, why doesn’t Adobe simply add a check mark to ASK the user whether they want a desktop shortcut? Hell, I wouldn’t mind this even if it asked during every update. At least ASK.

It’s not just a matter of aesthetics – IT departments have standard operating procedures for a REASON. Simply adding a shortcut to users’ desktops willy nilly results in many calls from clueless users what the hell is this new app doing on their computer.

Like you, the majority of us use PDFs simply because of the WYSIWYG nature of documents in that format. But if this stupid behaviour keeps on happening I’ll recommend our IT department to stop wasting money on Adobe junk and use something else. It’s not like there aren’t other PDF readers around. Hell, we’ve already successfully field tested PDF writers. We’re just THIS far away from ditching Adobe altogether.

I’m surprised Adobe isn’t addressing this simple issue and continue their stupid force marketing campaign at the expense of losing previously loyal customers. The marketing idiot who came up with the idea should be fired. And run out of town. With pitchforks.

I am an Androidian!

Dave

BTW, I am an Adobe customer. I buy Acrobat professional for all my PC’s. We spend a lot of money at Adobe.com and this is how they treat us. I hate it when premium priced products have terrible support.

I will likely cut down the acrobat installs due to Adobe’s incompetence.

No, I’ve never heard about that. Can you supply me a source/URL for this?

As for storage, there are other ways around it. Sure VMware has VMFS, but it’s not fool proof either.

There lies the real issue. You just expect everything to work out of the box. Even legacy apps in your opinion must work immeidately with new technologies, right down to different CPU bits. You said it yourself, it’s not fool proof. If you’re choosing Hyper-V over VMware, then in my opinion you either don’t know what you’re doing, don’t really know what the REAL differences are, or just don’t care since Hyper-V is “Free” (yeah right). Perhaps the problem isn’t the fact that VMware or in this case VMFS isn’t fool proof. Perhaps the problem is the fool.