The Adobe AIR runtime enables developers to use proven web technologies in order to create rich Internet applications that will deploy to the desktop and can run on different operating systems.

With regard to the business benefits, Adobe AIR offers an exciting new way to engage customers with innovative, branded desktop applications, without requiring changes to existing technology, people, or processes.

This cross-operating system runtime renders the applications more fun, powerful and easy to use.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Multithreaded Video Decoding - This release introduces a new fully multithreaded video decoding pipeline which resolves a number of legacy playback issues. This modern architecture will also enable future performance enhancements across all platforms.
· Flash Player background updates - New versions of the runtimes can now be delivered more effectively to the end user with this enhanced updating mechanism (Background update is only available in the release versions of Flash Player).
· Mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, right and middle click events - Infinite scrolling and new mouse events to enable first-person shooter experiences.
· Drivers gating for hardware acceleration relaxed to 1/1/2008
· Throttling event - This release introduces a new ThrottleEvent.