For those of you in Group B, let me explain something.
You can interpret things any way you want to, BUT…..
Rollups contain the SO and the IE11 CU. They are basically the same thing (less the non-security part). The sequence is the same. Just put SO/IE11 CU in place of Rollup. From Woody’s instructions, my experience:
I Installed the Dec Updates on eight (8) Win7 machines of varying types (32 and 64 bit, Home, Pro, and Ultimate). I let Windows Update handle the installation each time, which means the Rollup, .NET, Office (when installed), and MSRT were installed first and the SSU appeared and installed AFTER the reboot. In all cases, the initial install of the Rollup involved two (2) reboots to complete, but presented no problems. And I had no problems with the SSU installs afterward.
I can only say it works.