Outdated Online Adobe Reader Fixes - An Opinion

With a company as huge as Adobe, and the fact that this company has been online for many, many years, maybe that's why any current "fixes" for the current up to date Adobe Reader have been ignored...? Perusing through these so called fixes when the reader installed on my computer crashes, all I see is reference to IE 8, 9, and sometimes 10, but nothing referring to the latest up to date IE browser IE 11 (11.0.9600.1710715 (11.0.8 (KB2953522)))... My operating system is an up to date Windows 8.1 64-bit system, but from what I am reading, the reader works better on a 32-bit system... And, even though I have the latest up to date Flash player "built-in to IE 11, I still get error messages from Adobe, or IE, that my Flash player is "out of date" when attempting to play online video at various sites...
Sifting through the countless "support" FAQs and "community" boards is an extremely time consuming process and it isn't a guarantee I will find a solution to my problem...
The impression Adobe has left me is one of a huge corporate giant, in the software field, that is more concerned with its bottom line and stock holders... Whatever Adobe software, as is true with 99% of the software out there, is what is new today, it is antiquated and out-of-date by the end of the next day - at least one would think so with the enormous amount of advertising "you just have to have this new and better" updated Adobe program even though you just installed that "newest and better" program just yesterday...!
I seriously doubt that the answer as to why the current and up to date Adobe Reader XI (11.0.07) installed on my computer keeps crashing - in spite of "repairing" the installation - can be found here or anywhere Adobe has an online presence... When a software company wants to lay the blame of their software program not working at the feet of the browser community, then I can only imagine they are not really that serious about helping the consumers who use their products...
I know this missive is but a whisper amongst the roar of "business as usual" for this software behemoth and it will go totally unnoticed to any tech person worth their salt to post a real solution as to why Adobe Reader crashes when using Windows 8.1 and IE 11...

Pat... It's been a busy time, but just wanted to update you with my situation with Adobe Reader...
Ended up uninstalling everything Adobe and only reinstalled what I only needed for reading PDFs and watching flash videos - Adobe Reader and reinstalled Flash...
I have given up on IE 11, which has been part of the problem, and now use FireFox, which so far seems to be holding up... (No more MS-Outlook, either; now I use Thunderbird (Mozilla) for my email system)
The latest SNAFU situation - a long story I won't bore you with - concerns Microsoft and their licensing policy..
Seems the license key I had for the MS-Office Pro Plus program I had installed on my computer back in 2012, using the DVD purchased from MS via my work place, who set up the deal with an outside vendor, who offered the software at the unbelievable price of $9.95, also unscrupulously re-sold the same license key at least four other times... So, after two years my installation of MS-Office Pro Plus started acting wiggy...
Microsoft told me I had installed it four times according to their records, which I hadn't... Microsoft (a Costa Rican rep) said I could pay $100 to buy a new license key and said the key could only be purchased through one of Microsoft's many outsourced support centers around the world, but not in the United States... I told him MS could put that offer where the sun don't shine...
Okay, so much for sparing your the "long story"...
Anyway, my Adobe problem seems to have been fixed and IE will very soon be but a memory on my computer (hmmm, maybe not; that could still cause problems)...
Thanks again for all your feedback to my earlier "rant"... Appreciate it...

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