Do you ever get tired being such an obvious shill?
I always enjoy when someone calls someone else a moron and then offers up their "proof", and that proof turns out to be bogus. The page you linked to in this post contains information concerning fixes for issues that have arisen since Service Pack 1 was released. Most of these issues are accompanied by hotfixes that will resolve the issue in question, but they are not intended to be installed on EVERY machine, only on machines that are experiencing that problem. So, you can't really say that there are 499 patches that you have to install to bring a system up to date. That's misleading.
It's a lot better than if MS just said "Sorry, that didn't happen on our test machines so we're not going to fix it." I get mad at some of the things that they do too, but when you realize what a HUGE company they are, I think they actually do a pretty good job of solving these issues.
No. You're still just a moron. The context being discussed here was someone who wanted to create a CD that he could use against multiple machines as well as distribute to his users. In such a circumstance, it would make perfect sense to include all 500 patches (plus SP1) on the disk. While each individual patch may not need to be loaded on each individual system, they should all be available on such a disk.
Another problem arises when the user is faced with deciding which of the listed patches has to be applied to their computer. So, as a part of the process of creating the CD, copies of the descriptions of each patch should also be included so you could determine what was needed and what was not. It's a freaking nightmare, but you will gloss over it because it comes from blessed microsoft.
That's this guy's M-O. Makes things up to slam Microsoft, then gets bent and starts calling names when called on it. What a loser.