Why wouldn't you get updates?
The only thing stopping you from that is KB4012982, which changes a 0 to 1 in a .dll file. Just don't install it, and it works completely fine. There will probably be other future updates doing the same thing. Accidentally install it? Use a patcher to make that 1 a 0 again.
Or use Portable Update, which is a third party Windows Updater that works more often than actual Windows Update.
This was a change made by Microsoft after the boards were released, so most have Windows 8.1 drivers - which work on 7.
Before Microsoft did this, Windows 7 was the only OS allowed for benchmarking Ryzen. Then they fixed the RTC issue.
But as I say one line down from what you've quoted, use Windows 10 and avoid all that.