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		belgianguy on Jan 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Now Google is blocking Windows Phones from accessi... Try going to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com with a non-IE browser and be amazed.

recoiledsnake on Jan 5, 2013 [–]

I tried in Opera and IE10, and in both got the message to open Control Panel and access Windows Update.

Anyway yours is a very bad example since Windows Update needs an ActiveX component to update the OS itself, which is not amenable to web standards, unlike a mapping service.

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