239010 - Must use IE 5+ in order to access http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 28321

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Jared]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Firefox is unable to display http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Navigate to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Actual Results:  
The following message is generated:

Thank you for your interest in Windows Update

Windows Update is the online extension of Windows that helps you get the most
out of your computer.

You need to be running a version of Internet Explorer 5 or higher in order to
use Windows Update.

Download the latest version of Internet Explorer

Once Internet Explorer is installed, you can go to the Windows Update site by
typing http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com into the address bar of Internet Explorer.

If you prefer to use a different Web browser, updates to Windows may be
downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center.

Expected Results:  
Display the Microsoft Windows Update page as executed in IE.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This is not going to be addressed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28321 ***