Things might be slowly getting better for Windows. Omaha http://code.google.com/p/omaha/ was released under an open source license recently. It will be interesting to see if other projects adopt it, or if it remains being used by Google products only. Ars Technica had a good summary about the current state of Omaha. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/google-opens...