Yes, a billion updates to install. Microsoft is profit driven so why should they expend effort to reduce this as there is no recurring revenue for this old OS?
Yes I'm asking since the question is the answer.
I did a "clean" Windows 7 Professional on 4/17/17 immediately following had notification of 92 updates.I installed.Following day notification 105 updates and I installed.Since that date I get daily notice of 4 to 6 updates.I can understand the initial batch but these daily ones show published dates back to 2014.
Is this normal and should I continue to install these updates with published dates dating back so far...this puzzles me

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