Processes in Microsoft 365 for setting up Office apps, redeeming product keys, and activating licenses.
They all come down at the same time,
Not true, I think. I installed most of the June Windows Updates on Wednesday evening 11 June. I'm not sure how long they'd been waiting for me to give the go-ahead, but probably a few hours.
Office 2013 did not update itself until 24 hours later, in the evening of 12 June. I've had no problems (touch wood) so far with the updated MSO 15.0.4623.1003 32-bit on W7 SP1 Pro x64.
My apologies. Let me be specific about what I meant. I meant that there is no distinction between when updates for Windows or updates for Office are released. They are all equal and get released when they are ready. My real point was a response to what was said by the one who posted that they didn't realize that they were handled differently. They are not. The only difference is that you can turn off Updates in Office while not affecting updates for anything else. And for the record, it can all depend on how long you make the system wait to apply any of the updates. For instance, I did that clean install a few days ago of Windows 7 and Office 2013. I did not allow any updating until I had the computer set up like I wanted. I then turned updating back on and allowed all updates that have come out since Windows 7 Pro and Office 2013 were released to be applied at the same time. There were 163 of them. The Windows and the Office updates all got applied at the same time. Usually they get applied as they come out. If it happens to be the same time then it is the same time. If not, then it is as they get done. So I am sorry my rush to make a point was confusing. I should have taken time to explain in detail. But to make it clear, depending on circumstances they can be applied at the same time or at different times, but the important thing here was that you can specifically turn Office updates off without affecting the application of any other updates.