What are the Maximum Severity and Download columns in the report used for?
Maximum Severity corresponds to the maximum severity rating of the security bulletin issued by Microsoft. For a given security bulletin, there may be several affected products each having a different severity rating. The maximum severity represents the severity associated with the affected product having the highest level of severity within the bulletin. This value allows administrators to better prioritize update risk and deployment urgency. The Download item allows direct access to the update package that contains the fix for the security issue. This update package linked to by the report is the actual software update required based on the configuration of the computer that was scanned. When viewing a report for another computer, the update package may not be appropriate for the computer running the report viewer, so keep this in mind when downloading update packages.
