Why is the CD required for security patches?

[P.J. Patterson]

I have a laptop with an external CD - I only cart it
around when I expect to need it, and I certainly do not
carry my MSDN disks around with me. Why do I need the CD
in order to update for security patches? I can
understand a login or key verification, maybe, but this
seems extreme.

I assume this has been asked before - is there a
workaround? If not, it just means I have to wait a day
or two to update, if I remember, but what a pain!

 

[Keith Klenke]

how did you install office to your workstations? manually?
setup an AIP instead - http://www.kernelklenke.net/office/oxpss.html