The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I have been busy working lately.  With the weather change, I haven't felt much like using my PC.  Today, I booted up Windows VIsta to lookup a book on my ebook reader.  Five different programs started downloading updates at the same time.  When I started the ebook reader, another download began.  

I think Microsoft and Apple should develop a software update framework for their operating systems.  This framework would be usable by all software.  It would allow updates to be downloaded in turn, throttled, scheduled, and offer one place to manage them.  I'm sick of having a bunch of programs running in the background just to check for software updates.  The java update scheduler, real player, acrobat, flash, steam, antivirus, xfire, msn, ... it's just got to stop.  

There is also a security advantage to this idea.  One could go into a single application and see that all their software is up to date.  I'd also like the software to easily wait until I reboot to install.  I don't want a nag message every ten minutes or even four hours.