Chrome has a background process that does the updating for it, Adobe could in fact use the same code Google does if they wanted (and it'd likely be much higher

Chrome has a background process that does the updating for it, Adobe could in fact use the same code Google does if they wanted (and it'd likely be much higher quality than anything Adobe wrote for themselves!): http://code.google.com/p/omaha/ http://code.google.com/p/omaha/ http://code.google.com/p/update-engine/ http://code.google.com/p/update-engine/