Yes. Adobe AIR will provide a mechanism to make it easy to update applications. This is partially implemented in the Adobe AIR Beta.

Adobe AIR 1.0 will not have built-in support for communicating directly with databases. However, it will be possible to write database drivers in ActionScript (leveraging binary or XML sockets), which would allow Adobe AIR applications to communicate directly with a database (both local and remote).

Yes. Adobe AIR applications will be able to communicate with each other via the use of the LocalConnection ActionScript API.

Yes, in addition to creating and distributing cross-platform Adobe AIR application installer files, it will be possible for developers to write their own custom native installers that install Adobe AIR and the Adobe AIR application.

Yes. Adobe AIR will provide a set of APIs to make it easy to develop connected applications that work while offline.

We will post more information on creating Flash content with Flash authoring, once the next version of Flash authoring is release. In the meantime, Grant Skinner has created an extension for Flash CS3 that allows you to author AIR applications from Flash. You can find more information on the extension on Grant's website.

Adobe AIR applications are installed like any other application on a user's computer. The user downloads a cross-platform installation file, and double clicks it which starts the install process. The experience for the end user depends on which operating system they are running on, as Adobe AIR will provide an installation mechanism consistent with that of the current operating system.

Adobe AIR is targeted at allowing web developers to build and deploy web applications to the desktop.

You can leverage any existing IDE that you already use for Flash / Flex or HTML / JavaScript development (such as Flex Builder, Eclipse, vim, etc.). Adobe AIR does not require a specific IDE. We will be releasing a set of command line tools for Adobe AIR that will make it easy for developers to do Adobe AIR application packaging and development via their favorite IDE or editor. You can download an Beta version of these tools in the Adobe AIR SDK.

No. Adobe AIR applications are installed on a per-user basis, so administrative privileges aren't required for installation.

Adobe AIR applications run with the privileges of the user who starts the app. When the operating system applies security restrictions to applications (such as UAC in Windows Vista) those restrictions will be enforced on Adobe AIR applications.

You will be able to distribute and install Adobe AIR applications via CD-ROM, although currently, we do not have plans to allow Adobe AIR 1.0 applications to run from a CD-ROM without first being installed on the user's system. It will also be possible to create Kiosk based applications that are deployed to the Adobe AIR runtime, but again, this is not a use case driving features for Adobe AIR 1.0.

Windows 98 features Disk Defragmenter as part of its Windows Maintenance Wizard. Disk Defragmenter keeps track of the applications you use most, and puts the files needed to run those applications together on your hard disk and in the order needed for launching them. As a result, Windows 98 is able to launch your applications up to 36% faster.

You can register .mid and .syx files with QWS so that QWS will load these file types automatically. If you did not do this at setup, to do this, from the Windows Run dialog, enter the full path to where you installed QWS.EXE and add /r to the end of the command. You will be prompted if the file types are already registered with other programs.

Many Windows applications use file formats that are proprietary and subject to change with each new release. Use of the original application (i.e. Word, Excel, Power Point) to convert the document provides the most reliable and accurate result and also allows new formats to be supported as soon as the application becomes available, rather than waiting for third party software providers to update their conversion products.

The Java SE specification provides an interface to native drivers and C or C++ functions called the Java Native Interface (JNI). JNI works by creating a Java-visible wrapper around the native code, a new header file to cross-reference the wrapper, and then a call from the Java program which allows parameters to be passed and received by the native code.

When the CD to MP3 Ripper is installed successfully on to your computer, there should have a shortcut created on the desktop, you may double click it to launch it. You may also run it from "Start > Programs > CD to MP3 Ripper > CD to MP3 Ripper".

SpaceNavigator supports Adobe Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Acrobat 3D on the Macintosh and on the PC.

Ensure that these applications are not installed on your computer. If they are they will need to be uninstalled before you can use the Adobe Reader.

PAL has the ability to launch other applications by utilizing the Tlaunch.ini file. Please review the PAL Administrator's Guide for more information and instructions on how to implement this. I've added my own numbers to the PAL phone book but when I launch PAL I am not seeing them. What could be causing this problem? There are multiple reasons why the numbers may not be showing up in the PAL phone book. Listed below are the most common reasons. The format of the addlist.txt file is not correct.