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I would comment to say yes, install them, but yesterday WU failed on everything, corrupted my system and refused to let me turn on Windows Firewall.

I'm posting from Linux, but I can't say that's better for frequency of updates. You get just as many (though you can usually install them without restarting and do it when you want not when MS wants) but you have to do OS upgrades every 6 months.