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(Also bear in mind the realities for a New Zealand ISP. I suspect that a large portion of their traffic comes from overseas, and capacity ain't free on whatever undersea cables happen to land in NZ...)

Yeah but, if unpatched, it would have downloaded more as part of a botnet.

Windows 10 is not a "a patch"

Windows Update downloads more than "patches". It has been used in the past to distribute standalone tools and service packs.

It has never wholesale upgraded the OS to a new major version. Nobody expects it to.

And that's a large part of why Windows security has always been terrible. While we may not have expected it, that just means we were pleasantly surprised.

A security update shouldn't take 6 GB of space.

How much space should it take?

Windows 8.1 is supported until 2018

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