Update never works

An automated message popped up on my laptop telling that a new Adobe Reader was available to be installed. At the end of the install process, a dialogue box told me that "Adobe Reader 8.1.3 Update failed to install".
I am moved to write this post because, over the years, this has happened so many times on so many PCs that I have owned or used (as soon as the process started, I mentally told myself "this is very unlikely to be successful").
There are two aspects:
1. Why is Adobe's update so unreliable?
2. Why is the message so uninformative? No information whatsoever is provided about why the install failed, whether I should be concerned or how I might rectify the problem.
I appreciate that this is free software and so I should not expect high quality but it has happened to me so many times that I am surprised that Adobe are unable to improve their updater's reliability.

I am having the same problem with the 8.1.3 update. I have a WinXP SP3 desktop system. I tried a reboot, installation in Safe mode to no avail. The error reads "Adobe Acrobat 8.1.3 Standard update failed to install." If you click OK it says "the updating process is complete"
Never had a problem before. Maybe the update is broken?

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