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Bad Update Experience

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From: Steve_Mueller
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:37
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I just got asked if I wanted Reader to automatically check for updates every week, so I said to do that. Reader came back with three updates that it said that I should have -- 7.0.5, 7.0.7 and 7.0.8. I said to install them.

What a pain! For each update, I had to reboot my PC. That's three reboots for three point-point releases! Hasn't anybody there heard of cumulative updates? The system obviously knows what version I have, so it would be wonderful if you created cumulative updates to avoid rebooting my PC more than once.

Now, I'm a software developer, too, and I understand that you can't do this forever. I would probably recommend cumulative updates for each major version (5.x to 6.0, 6.x to 7.0, 7.x to current). That way nobody would have to reboot their machine more than once per major version.

Of course, the bigger question is why Reader is so tied into the system that it requires a reboot at all, but I won't go there.

Steve
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