I just want to look at a document and then store it in MY HARD DRIVE thank you very much.īut apparently, this "cloud" solution is making money for Adobe, although not enough to justify the stock price. It has so many sidebar menus and crap exhorting me to go on the cloud and pay them money.
#ADOBE ACROBAT 2015 MAKING ME PAY PDF#
Adobe Reader DC, on the other hand, is a pain-in-the-ass as it keeps hijacking Acrobat 8.0 as the "default" viewer for PDF files from Firefox. I have an old copy of Acrobat 8.0 Professional (which you can find online for free) and it works fine.
However, perhaps some folks are pissed off that Adobe is going "cloud" on us and using the subscription model. It was just me bitching about the flash player. UPDATE: For some reason, starting in September 2016, this posting has gotten tons of hits. But maybe the era of software - as a product - is coming to an end.Īfter all, if the product is "free" how are you going to make a profit on it? The bottom line is, it is no longer a software company. They have reinvented themselves as a software "enterprise solutions" company and for a while there, were quite profitable at it, too. IBM is still around, of course, but people are no longer fearful of "big Blue" anymore. In a way, it reminds me of the fate of IBM.