Macromedia has released a public beta of Flash Player 7.  Guess what, Flash 7 adds automatic notification and update.  QuickTime has it, Real Player has it, Java has it, and now Flash has it.

Could we please get together and build a SINGLE public pipeline instead of all these private implementations each of which waste memory and bandwidth unnecessarily and configuration and usability mess?  One pipeline and one UI for everyone is what I want.

We can either arm-wrestle Microsoft into giving us access to its Windows Update facility, or build out own.  Anything but this everybody build their own private pipeline nonsense.