Vista - Adobe Air...what is it?

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

Mansrm81, thanks for the link but I have come across it already plus a dozen other blogs andf I am still clueless.

All that I seem to understand is it is mainly for "developer" which I am sure I am not (because I have no clue what a developer is). I just want a simple clear advice on whether or not I should keep it (because I am liable to use it) or delete (because I probably will never use it?). BTW, it is downloadable separately (and free). Hence, I can easily delete and re-install except I really do not know what it is used for.

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.

Thanks, airbot and mansrm81. It's gone!

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

Might want to do yourself a favor and remove Reader all together and give this a try,

Foxit Software

Much lighter on resources, more options out of the gate, and opens almost instantly.

I agree, FOXIT is much better ...smaller, simpler and faster. I've been using it for a year now.

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.