Golfclap becomes FACEPALM->Golfclap.

[theweaselking]

My complaint from a few days ago about Microsoft fucking up update.microsoft.com such that users of Windows Update were incapable of upgrading to Microsoft Update from the site that installs Microsoft Update?

I found the problem.

update.microsoft.com *doesn't work* in IE 11. At all. It detects that you're using IE 11 and ignores that you might have a REASON to want to go to the site.

Removing IE 11 leaves IE 10, and if you're using IE 10 the site checks and lets you install the upgrade.

Comments

[thornae.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, I should've thought of that. Sorry.

Yeah, IE 11? They also "improved" wininet.dll. And by "improved" I mean "completely broke a bunch of basic functionality", including passive FTP (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19683291/wininet-from-ie-11-randomly-returns-error-12003-for-most-ftp-functions). Which, y'know, our principal piece of software relies on.

Microsoft's workaround for this? "Don't use PASV." Thanks a bunch, fuckers.

So, yeah, we're kind of telling everyone to stick with IE 10, or downgrade if they've already upgraded.
FACEPALM->Golfclap indeed.

[pappy-legba.livejournal.com]

Every time IE makes a big step forward (and to be honest, it has), something like this pops up to illustrate that it is still, at best, a second-rate browser.

Possibly this isn't the IE team's fault, but part of whatever architectural decisions continue to shunt Windows Update through IE.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Can you not update "Windows Update" by running "Windows Update"?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

That does not change you from Windows Update to Microsoft Update. The difference being, MS Update delivers Office updates, driver updates, Silverlight, etc, and Windows Update is only Windows.