Mixing updates for Windows 7 and 8

Hello,
I'm trying to come up with a design decision for performing monthly workstation updates. Currently I have two baseline software update groups (SUG) for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 which contain all updates for this year and prior years. All our devices are
Windows 7 with only a handful of Windows 8/8.1 devices. I plan to create monthly update groups to coincide with Patch Tuesday. I would like to know if the preferred method for SUGs is to have a dedicated group for each OS or if it is okay to combine the two
groups into one. I am aware of the limit of 1000 updates per group.
My other question is in regards to Office updates. Should I mix these updates with the OS updates or should this be it's own separate SUG?
Thanks,
Chris

It's ok to combine software updates for multiple products into the same SUG and have that SUG deployed to systems that don't qualify for all of the updates. Each client will only install what applies to them specifically. However, it is ideal to not target
any systems with updates that don't apply to them as it can contribute to WMI repository bloat.

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