Oh, Microsoft, you idiots.
Dec. 18th, 2013 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingMicrosoft has broken, sometime very recently, the functionality to upgrade from Windows Update to Microsoft Update, at least on Win7 machines.
What happens when you click "find out more" to tell it "also show me other things" - eg, hardware drivers, Silverlight, Microsoft Security Essentials, their unbelievably bad Bing Desktop, etc is that it takes you to a static page that says "use your Start menu to check for updates", with no option to switch to Microsoft Update. The source of the page shows that this WAS the page with the "install MS Update now" button at one point, but someone's gone through and removed the actually useful stuff.
Well done, Microsoft. You get a golf clap.
What happens when you click "find out more" to tell it "also show me other things" - eg, hardware drivers, Silverlight, Microsoft Security Essentials, their unbelievably bad Bing Desktop, etc is that it takes you to a static page that says "use your Start menu to check for updates", with no option to switch to Microsoft Update. The source of the page shows that this WAS the page with the "install MS Update now" button at one point, but someone's gone through and removed the actually useful stuff.
Well done, Microsoft. You get a golf clap.