I believe Todd Howard mentioned that 1.6 had been officially released on PC (which to me means that it is no longer in beta). However, my game will not update even though I have it set up to. So whats the deal? Is patch 1.6 released or what?

Well you believe wrong. 1.6 is still in beta.

Well Todd Howard needs to be careful with how he words things. He said that 1.6 was released on PC, it would have been much clearer if he said it was in beta release or at least mentioned beta.