@mike finley - I get where you're coming from. Certainly there will be a welcome pointer or it will be mentioned in the 3.7 welcome screen. It would be foolish not to put information there about auto updates. Unfortunately, there will still be a bunch of people who will claim they didn't read or hear anything about auto updates and they will be pretty upset that WordPress broke their site, even if it's a plugins fault. However, I plan on writing about this again once 3.7 is released and I'll be sure to link people to any Automatic Upgrade plugin manager plugin that exists at the time for people that more control over how it works.