It's not rocket science, but it is progress-and it punishes paying customers far less than these earlier practices of hiding media/downloads and serial locking used to.Īnyway, the card for Adobe Acrobat X Standard we received simply says: Want to activate one? No problem-pop the serial number/product number in for the version you own, and bang! You activate the version you have a license for. Without a serial number, you picka version and run a trial. nothing like good, old fashioned trickery to drive sales!).Īs a sidenote/editorial on this: Kudos to Microsoft, as they have recently really loosened the reigns with locking serial numbers to specific versions of core software (e.g., Windows, Office)-and also have begun providing easily located download locations for these products that are available to the public. I'm all about saving the planet by not providing media-except when it is also used opportunistically to help augment sales of the upstream products (in this case, Acrobat Pro, which I'm sure will be the end result of this being so obfuscating, at least for many.

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