Anyone else get a crapload of Vista (64) updates today?

Factual Questions
1

I DLed a small update yesterday (for Windows Defender), but booted up the machine today, and Microsoft kindly notified me that I had SIXTEEN updates ready to go. They include

Cumulative Security update for ActiveX Killbits
Cumulative Security update for IE8 (I never use IE8 hence I never DL these-can that be a problem?)
Security update for .NET Framework 3.5
Then a whopping NINE security updates for Vista 64
Junk email filter update (I’m not sure how to use this-maybe it runs in the background automatically, explaining how I often never get emails, usually from sites I try to register for)
Vista 64 update
Malicious software removal tool

So anyone else getting these? They all say “published yesterday”-so why would MS release them all at once like that? Or am I missing something here? :confused:

2

Still on windows XP here. About the same. Need to remember to update the home computers too.

I think that there’s some internal schedule at microsoft about the second Tuesday of the month, or something like that.

3

Microsoft traditionally releases updates on the second Tuesday of every month and yesterday, they released more patches than in any previous date.

4

This has been all over the tech news. 64 bugs in 64 bits. And in XP too.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20053212-245.html

5

Windows 7 (64-bit version) user reporting in.

My PC had 25 critical updates to perform this morning. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many.