content: For the most part yes. Microsoft plans on moving to a monthly update release cycle that combine a number of patches/fixes/junk into one big update. And it looks like these updates won't be very well documented (i.e. lots of hidden and undocumented features). Hopefully, we'll be able to figure out a way to block unwanted updates, or even delete the parts of the updates that we don't want installed. We'll really just have to wait and see how this goes. The worse case scenario will be that at a certain point your Windows 7/8.x system will go un-patched. This might be fine for most home users, but I might not recommend this for businesses. Maybe it will encourage more businesses to move to Linux.