After arguing with an Adobe person earlier this year about, among other things, the proprietary nature of ActionScript given the re-invigoration of the last few years of interest in the ECMAScript standard, I was sure to get my plug in for a 64-bit version of the popular Flash player browser ‘plugin’ !  I’m quite certain they weren’t listening to me, but I was happy to recently discover the preview here.  Works well for me, even though it is a preview version.

I can’t help but wonder what took so long?  Then, I happened to catch this today (though its been posted for a bit).  Maybe an acquisition by the maker of the world’s most popular browser was the impetus!

Update: The SUCK doesn’t stop on this one: Silverlight doesn’t, repeat DOES NOT run in IE 64!    See:

Update 2: Double SUCK!  Apparently my original link to the Adobe labs download for the 64-bit Flash plugin no longer works (as of 1/1/2011).  Maybe they’ve taken it down!  Ugh.  Well, I’ve got it installed anyway: