Microsoft's Windows Update site has been experiencing severe problems in the past week, and numerous users have been unable to access the site. According to several people who've contacted The Register, problems began on Thursday and carried on through Friday. Over the weekend it does seem to have been possible to access the site, but they report that it was unreliable. At the moment, however, it seems to have gone off again. Three attempts by The Register to download critical updates for a Windows 2000 machine resulted in an attempt to start the download, then an apparent timeout followed by a blank "the following updates were not installed" message. As indeed they were not.
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