@donnacha | WordSkill - I hope it is! After reviewing my logs and watching all the people romp around still using IE6, I wish *some* programs would remotely upgrade themselves, a software platform such as Wordpress should not. While it would benefit the majority (is Wordpress a democracy?) of casual users, it could be an issue for people who are well aware of what they are doing with Wordpress.

Maybe not, maybe I just prefer the hands on approach, but I would hate to load up one of my sites over coffee in the morning and find some plugins broken by a non-critical automatic upgrade. Of course plugins that are well executed shouldn't have this problem, but it's more an example of just one possible scenario.

You know those ads that some sites feel the need to throw at us; The AJAX lightbox ones that hide the page you wanted to see and replace it with a nice ad for Extenze? Maybe an upgrade notice of that caliber when you logged in to your dashboard, along with email notification might be a step forward towards the "in your face" model of notifying admins.