Clicking on the first (most recent) entry in the list generally takes you to the download site for the KB patch that you seek. It short-circuits the ActiveX front end by looking at the RSS feed for KB articles.įilling in the desired KB number for "xxxxxxx," your browser returns a list of KB articles that contain that KB number. Poster abbodi86 on AskWoody filled me in on a secret to get at the patches without using Internet Explorer (or the execrable Catalog interface).
Later this summer, we will be updating the site to eliminate the ActiveX control in order to support other browsers. Customers that use tools linking to the Microsoft Download Center should follow the links provided in the Security Bulletins or search directly on the Microsoft Update Catalog.įor those who aren't familiar with the Microsoft Update Catalog website, note that it still requires using Internet Explorer at this point because of an ActiveX control used. Security bulletins will continue to link directly to the updates, but will point to the packages on the Microsoft Update Catalog instead of the Microsoft Download Center. Within the next few months Windows updates will no longer be available from the Microsoft Download Center. Microsoft senior product manager Nathan Mercer said in a May 17 blog post: Microsoft has told us, as recently as this May, that it's going to fix the Update Catalog real soon now.
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