I can't access Windows Update v4

I sadly can also confirm that the old Windows Update v4 site is now just looping between two addresses and never loading.

I thought it was just me, but obviously not!

I feel that this must be a fault, as MS have always maintained that existing updates for Windows 98/ME would still remain available, and they do usually announce if that sort of thing has changed.

Anyway, surely they would just redirect it to a page informing people that Windows Update was no longer available rather than just making it look as if it's a fault!

It looks to me as if it's redirecting to the Windows Update v6 address, and then bouncing straight back again, so I suspect that the v4 site is still there, it's the detection system that detects that you have Windows 98 or ME that isn't working properly, and it's trying to send you to the v6 site in error.

It's annoying because even though there was never anything new there when I looked of course, it did enable me to look at my update history, and I now see no way of doing that if the page won't load!

Is it worth sending an e-mail to MS about this? Has anyone here already done so?

EDIT

I've just managed to get into the Windows Update site on Windows 98 using Opera, as you can tell Opera to mask itself as Internet Explorer.

This time it didn't bounce back to another address, but what I'm seeing may actually be the v6 Windows Update site not the v4 one.

As it relies on ActiveX controls, which Opera doesn't support, I can't go any further to check.

Edited September 6, 2011 by Dave-H