What's up with Abode trying to embarrass Window 7

[Julio Jerez]

when I open some videos I am getting a message that says "you need a new version of Flash to play this content",
but when I click to update flash it say that It nee to switch to 32 bit IX explorer. When I click on reason for failure, I get this message

TRY THIS FIRST

This problem is related to the browser you are using. Try using another browser, such as Firefox from Mozilla.

The underlying reason for this problem is compatibility. To use Flash Player to view Flash content on a 64-bit operating system, you need a 32-bit browser.

Windows 7 editions include 32-bit software. You can use the 32-bit Internet Explorer installed on your system.

Microsoft provides instructions on how to determine whether your Windows 7 or Internet Explorer is 32-bit or 64-bit. See the Microsoft support article Verify your environment and determine whether you are logged on with an administrator account.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/837/cpsid_83715.html

I may no be the best programmer in the world, but my experience porting and app for 32 bit to 64 bit is that just just click a bottom to switch target, and with GCC you just use the option -m64.

How it is that Adobe cannot make a media player that can play with the native IE explorer in 64 bit mode? and they tell the users to switch to FireFox.
I am going to go on a ledge here and say that FireFox is probably made by Adobe, of that Adobe is funding Mozilla in some partnership.
These are the things I truly, truly despise of from the Open source Community.

Also why Google now change youtube to use 64 bit Flash, when was working fine before?
It is google is trying to play hardball with Microsoft and window 7?
This was working fine last noght. how it is that is does not work now when there had not being any change?

[Stucuk]

Id recommend you try Googles Chrome. IE is too slow. While Chrome is far from perfect (Some websites don't load properly) the fact that Chrome loads its self and websites far faster than IE makes up for that.

P.S Are you sure that you don't have Adobe's Update application installed? It may have updated flash automatically without your knowledge.

[Julio Jerez]

I have all teh autmatic update on in my system, so mayeb it did.
teh point is that now I can no see any video and many pages do not show the containt.

But went I try to update Flash it says it can not intall it in a 64 bit system.

[Carli]

I may no be the best programmer in the world, but my experience porting and app for 32 bit to 64 bit is that just just click a bottom to switch target, and with GCC you just use the option -m64.

Not when you have highly optimized VM-Code for some high performance stuff like Flash-Videos. They use JIT-Code with inline assembler and directly generating i386-code in RAM. That's fast but dirty. I used to implement my old scripting engine this way but i was not able to port it to 64bit linux becuase of the inline assembler and the double address size.

There are also some video players that enable directly accessing the youtube search-functions for watching youtube at your favourite videoplayer (vor example totem.)

[Julio Jerez]

The thing is that I can not read the news now, since almost every new outlet is using Flash for videos. This BS is not funny