No other application on my PC needs a reboot after an update. Only Acrobat Reader mysteriously can't continue its updated life without a reboot. Is AR a virus scanner that needs root-level access? No! Is AR an operating system that needs to do arcane CPU ring changes and kernel installations to make its daily rounds? No!
Yet Reader demands a reboot after its multiple monthly updates. This is either poor design, or Reader with an inferiority complex thinking it has to do Big PC Things with its user-space app.
Why not modularize it so that reboots would only be required on changes to those SEEKRIT crypto parts? No? Do I hear a bunch of "I don't care"? That is what I got from the support department, "make a suggestion" but not "of course that sounds like a reasonable thing to do!" Becuase in 5 years of persistance on my machine, they've never considered that reboots might be a tedious thing to do for no reason other than to make life easier on Adobe developers.
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