Adobe’s Flash player is almost a requirement to view most web sites today. My rant today is how much Adobe sucks. For a long while now, some of us have been waiting for them to release a 64 bit compatible version for 64 bit browsers (i.e. Internet Explorer 64 bit). When Flash 9 came out, they said they were working on it and it would be released when it was done. Well, Adobe has begun releasing betas of the new Flash Player 10. Yes! Flash 10 for 2008. Yea 64 bit!
Wrong!
Not only do they still not have a 64 bit version, I read that one of the developers said they aren’t releasing a 64 bit version AND, "we will evaluate that requirement, which has been requested before, for inclusion in possible future releases based on customer demand."
Based on customer demand?!?!?!? I read an article on Slashdot from 2005 of people petitioning Macromedia (the original Flash developers) to release a 64 bit version of Flash. 3 years ago! GAH! WTF Adobe? It’s not like this is some small developer. This is Adobe. Owners of fricken Photoshop, surely one of the biggest/complicated programs that exists. How hard can this be? Seriously. I don’t code. How hard is this?
I’m guessing it is hard. Microsoft has their Flash competitor, Silverlight. I was fully prepared to demand that all web developers switch to using Silverlight so we can move into the 64 bit age. But upon checking… there is no 64 bit Silverlight support. GAH!
Why does the Internet hate 64 bit? 
