Great point. I love the auto-update feature on Chrome but I share the same fear as you if Adobe was to start doing it. Only software companies with mature soft

Great point. I love the auto-update feature on Chrome but I share the same fear as you if Adobe was to start doing it. Only software companies with mature software, good release management and clear product vision should go down this road. Google earned their rep here. There are white papers about the binary diff algorithms they developed to push down Chrome updates as efficiently as possible. I can see Adobe trying to "silently" push Reader 10 down the pipe, with the installer weighing in at 600 megs and throwing up tons of horrible dialogs and thrashing your CPU as it's "automatically" installed and resulting in a broken Reader. Hyperbole of course, but Adobe has long been banished from my computers because of their awful updater agent and performance regression in new versions of software.