There’s a whole load more AIR on the way…
	by Neil Middleton 3:37 pm Friday, 4 July 2008.

This morning I was confronted with an email telling me about Adobe’s new release of Acrobat 9 reader.

Whoop-de-doo I hear you cry…and that’s exactly what I thought (I don’t really care much for PDF).  However, I duly went to the download site and noticed a couple of small interesting things.  Let me show you Exhibit’s A & B:

Both of these options were presented to me when I went to download. This is a signicant thing.  Adobe are now using the pure ubquity of the reader software to distribute the AIR runtime.  This means that the installations of AIR and Flash 9 are going to be going through the roof, which is a good thing as it now means that, for us AIR developers, relying on the client user having the runtime installed is a little easier to predict and handle.

Flash and PDF Reader have got to be the most installed items of software Adobe have in their arsenal.  Overtime it certainly looks like AIR will be up there with them.

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	BBC launches AIR-based news ticker
	by Neil Middleton 12:35 pm Wednesday, 2 July 2008.

I’ve just seen on one of the many BBC editorial blogs that they have now re-released their age-old windows based news ticker application as an AIR app.

For me this is an interesting one for a couple of reasons - firstly, that this will result in a massive deployment of AIR across potentially hundreds of thousands of users, but also that they decided to not got down the Silverlight for any particular reason (and I’m sure Microsoft were trying to get in on this one).

Anyways, check it out and have a play.  Could it be the start of a new application development “standard” comig into being.

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