This article pretty much means nothing. Really. I've bought a few PCs, and even installed some Windows operating systems where the first thing you see when you go to the first Flash-using Website is a placeholder asking you to download the latest version of Flash.
It's almost pointless to include Flash directly in your distribution, really. With the constant updates, it pretty much is going to prompt you anyway. Of course, this is where Flash kind of bites it. They have to keep all devices updated so that you can use it. While PCs and Macs tend to at least keep up with using the latest flash, all other systems usually get the shaft. If you use a PS3, Wii, some phones, etc. They get updated browsers once every blue moon. So what ends up happening, is that while they tote flash in their browsers, good luck getting like 80% of them to work. Whoops! We're all using Flash 11 now, didn't you know? What? You're still on flash 8? Sorry neanderthal, your system wont play it.
