At work it's certainly better to have 'em batched. I think of it as "PMS Week" for all the Windows machines (oops, is that politically incorrect?). Git 'em all done and forget it for three weeks.
At home I don't care if patches get distributed through the month -- as long as I can make them NOT DISTURB ME while I'm doing stuff that's time critical or can't tolerate interruptions. Apple has been that way all along -- OS X updates become available, and they ASK POLITELY when would be a good time to install them.
Microsoft sometimes doesn't learn even where there's a perfectly obvious good example right in front of them of how to do it properly.
My objection is to "SURPRISE!! Sorry if you were working, your computer is tied up and then will reboot." Which is what this new deal sounds like so far for the home user.
I've long thought of it as the windows sysadmin full employment program. The amount of work and associated downtime that goes on in my organization surrounding these updates is astounding. It's especially bad when you consider the deployment philosophy of at least 'one server per task', wherewindows servers breed like rabbits.
When I was managing corporate web infrastructure the difference in how apps were deployed on windows boxes as opposed to unix boxes was mind blowing. Where we'd have one cluster of unix boxes that had 50 apache instances running on it, you'd see 50 different systems to do the same thing on the windows side. Virtualization helped a little. On the windows side, they were taking 50+ physical servers and consolidating them all on to a single ESX host, whereas we were lucky to get 10 unix servers virtualized. Management always looked at the windows servers and said "wow, look at all this money we're saving, why can't you uinix guys do that?" My reply was that our systems had been saving them that money for years because they did actual work because of design decisions we'd made regarding capacity.
Sorry. Ranting.
Say what? I set my auto-updates to install in the middle of the night. On Win8 it installs on shutdown, and gives you a few days’ notice if it needs to reboot.