Microsoft requested an immediate takedown of the Autopatcher download pages with the reasoning that they want to make their downloads available only from their
servers and from nowhere else. It is however kinda strange that it took them four years to request the takedown and many users fear that this has something to do with WGA enforcements.
The Neowin admin who was contacted asked the same question and received the following answer:
I asked the representative if Windows Genuine Advantage had anything to do with it and he categorically told me this was not the case, he added that Windows Update for pre-Vista versions of Windows can now be accessed using Firefox and that the concern at Microsoft had more to do with the possible malicious code that could be redistributed with certified Microsoft updates.
This is a sad day indeed.
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