Always refreshing to see some so 'casual' about something.....But, as an old sailor, are we at sea? Salty....
On to the good news. WHY bother with the security updates in the first place. Something like 96% of them apply to I.E. The remainder I ignore 'cuz I run the computer in a sandbox; nothing {yet} has gotten out of that sandbox to do it's vicious job.
I run WIN7 / Sandboxie / Opera, and have run update free for some time, totally happy....
Whaddaya got to lose?