When will Flash Player support my 64-bit browser?

I have had my new Windows 7 PC for a couple of weeks now. When I first got it, I kept getting messages telling me I needed to install Adobe Flash Player in order to get the full experience of a website. So I installed the Flash Player. Subsequently at many websites I got a pesky message about the Flash Player. (I forget the precise content of the message, but I'm sure many people using 64-bit browsers are familiar with it.)
I went to Adobe's site and discovered that the Flash Player did not support 64-bit browsers. Adobe's recommended solution for this disturbing news was that I install and run a 32-bit version of Internet Explorer, and Adobe didn't exactly lead me by the hand in explaining how I should do that. I was told to go to Microsoft and get help there. Yeh, right! Suddenly I'm thinking about a couple of hours of hassle. Nevertheless I browsed over to Microsoft and clicked to a few pages. I did not find any easy-to-follow instructions on how to uninstall my 64-bit Internet Explorer 8 and install a 32-bit version.
Is Adobe advising me to take a step backward? Is, or is not, 64-bit browsing better than 32-bit browsing?
I did not, and have not, installed the 32-bit Internet Explorer. Instead I found help at Adobe for uninstalling the Flash Player. Those pesky messages are history.
I really have not noticed any difference in quality between my former 32-bit browsing and my present 64-bit browsing, with and without the Flash Player. My browsing experience has been good, and I think the Flash Player adds nothing significant. Surely it adds nothing critical. Windows Vista has come and gone without Adobe providing support for its 64-bit version. Maybe the same thing will happen for Windows 7. So be it. If a Flash Player comes out that supports 64 bits, then I will use it. If Flash Player never supports 64 bits, then I'll never again use Flash Player.
I saw another post here, a fairly recent one, where a replier said that about 70% of Internet browsers are still using Windows XP. (I guess more than 90% of those use 32-bit browsers.) Okay, I believe that, but what about the other 30%? If only a measly 5% of all Internet browsers use 64 bits, that's a hell-of-a-lot of people. Surely thousands, maybe millions. Are all these people to be fobbed off? Does Adobe really have something more important to work on?
Should Adobe be condemned for its lassitude regarding 64-bit support? I think so, but what about the horde of websites that features the Flash Player? Knowing well that there are thousands, or millions, of people using 64-bit browsers, should not those websites and their organizations also be condemned?

Frankly I think Adobe is treating its customers shabbilly in this regard. There is a much larger 64 bit windows installed base than 64 bit linux, yet adobe have released the 64 bit linux support first, and not even announced the 64 bit windows version in any way for over a year.
Come on Adobe, we understand you and Microsoft are competitors, but don't let your users get caught in the cross fire. There are now close to as many computers running 64 bit windows than there are running any version of linux, or any version of mac os, 32 bit included.
It has been over a year and a half since Adobe even updated its position on this issue on its web site. Search bing for 64 bit flash and you get 32 million hits. 64 bit windows is nearly 3 years old as a released product, and 4+ years in terms of dobe having access to it.
Adobe, surely at the very least, you owe it to your customers to tell them when you plan to address this.

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