From: Gregg N 

Geo wrote:

>"Gregg N"  wrote in message
>news:42f93921$1{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>WU makes updating the computers of millions of novice home computer users
>>relatively automatic. Without it, they would be much less likely to
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>>the updates.
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>No doubt, which is a good reason for windows update to exist. However the
>patches are also available as separate downloads from
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx as 6 separate
>security updates.
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>What I'm asking is why don't they just release one august security update
>and list the 6 issues it fixes? Wouldn't that be much easier for the people
>who use this method instead of windows update?  That way we would have 9
>patches (assuming 1 per month) this year instead of the current 43.
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>Geo.
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I don't know. Maybe there are cases where you would not want to install all
of the updates.

Gregg

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