But in Flash they also have a product that is going to be severely challenged by HTML5 and Silverlight and probably some other products and technologies we don't even know about right now. He also brought in a lot of engineering discipline and an unprecedented level of communication about the Windows 7 development process via detailed, sometimes epic posts on the E7 Blog.Īdobe has profound issues of quality and negative perception to deal with, just as Microsoft did with Vista. Microsoft responded to the mess that was Vista by bringing in a new boss, Steven Sinofsky, who changed the internal culture on the Windows team quickly and decisively. (The Microsoft prescription is, in fact, the exact same set of steps I recommended right here back in January.)
The Windows 7 Reliability Monitor says Adobe's Flash Player is to blame (yes, it's up-to-date), and it offers a step-by-step solution: Uninstall the Flash Player, reboot, and reinstall Flash. I discovered yesterday that Internet Explorer crashes on my wife's PC once or twice a day. "Some issues"? Yeah, that's one way of putting it. We work closely with engineers at Adobe, sharing information about the issues we know of in ongoing technical discussions. Here's what IE boss Dean Hachamovitch had to say two weeks ago:įlash does have some issues, particularly around reliability, security, and performance. And Microsoft is reinforcing that same message, albeit more politely and with masterful understatement.
Was Steve Jobs exaggerating when he called Flash the biggest source of crashes on the Mac? Maybe a little, but I bet he has some pretty grim statistics to back that statement up. And make no mistake about it, those concerns are real.
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