I just activated Adobe Reader 9 and it came with Adobe Air as a separate item in programs list. My home laptop is mainly for entertinment (games, mail, vista forum, (?)porns, etc.. ) Serious business computing is always done by secretaries in the office.

I cannot understand all the blogs about it on the net. What is it and do I need it?

This will hopefully answer your ?'s

Adobe - Adobe AIR: FAQ

I don't know what to say its just another piece of bloatware and I uninstalled it cause it was no use to me.

You don't need it. Extra bull. I uninstalled it when I downloaded adobe. All I use is adobe reader, shockwave,flash. I don't use acrobat. adobe reader works fine without it for the basic use if that's all you need.

Yep, it's just another reason to dislike Adobe products.

Originally Posted by coolnewyorker

But guess what, I just found out some free porn sites require Adobe Media Player which requires Adobe air. (I regret posting this). Thus, I had to re-install it. And then I notice it has no size listed in Add/remove. What does it mean when a downloaded third party program has no size?

Lol, at least you found a use for AIR

No size reported isn't too big a deal. I have a printer driver that doesn't report size either. It's probably just not added into the code to report size, or it uses a different installer that doesn't report.