Richard Tallent is as annoyed with this as I am. A much worse thing is that when I originally installed the updates today, I got a dialog telling me that both of the 2 updates had failed to install. No reasons were given, just the sad fact of failure. There was no option to do anything except click "okay", so I did. Then the updates began the installation process. WTF?!?!
This is the 2nd bungled security handling issue out of the last 3 Microsoft has faced (I give MS a passing grade on the recent ASP.NET vulnerability). Why does it seem that Microsoft is working against themselves and their users lately? Why are there not loud public firings (nor even corrections!) over debacles like this (and the worse than worthless GDI+ vulnerability scanner)?
[UPDATE] Why did I just accidentally reboot my machine? Because that "restart now"/"restart later" dialog has "n" as the hotkey for "reboot now". Come on, people, "N" is the universal English letter for NO, NOT, NEGATIVE.