Allow Firefox to search for Microsoft Office updates

[Daren42]

I use Microsoft Office 2003 and Mozilla Firefox for my web browser. When I
try to search for updates to Office products from within the Help menu of the
program, I am presented with an error message telling me I can't look for
updates without Microsoft Internet Explorer. I prefer Firefox and should not
be coerced like this into using a different web browser to my choice to
legitimately search for updates to a Microsoft program that I paid money for.

I would like Microsoft to respect my consumer choices for other products and
allow me to update the Microsoft programs I paid for using Firefox, an
increasingly popular browser.

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Daren,

You can still download individual updates from http://office.microsoft.com/downloads The autoupdate checker uses ActiveX controls,
which Firefox can use with an add-in.

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I use Microsoft Office 2003 and Mozilla Firefox for my web browser. When I
try to search for updates to Office products from within the Help menu of the
program, I am presented with an error message telling me I can't look for
updates without Microsoft Internet Explorer. I prefer Firefox and should not
be coerced like this into using a different web browser to my choice to
legitimately search for updates to a Microsoft program that I paid money for.

I would like Microsoft to respect my consumer choices for other products and
allow me to update the Microsoft programs I paid for using Firefox, an
increasingly popular browser. >>
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I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

LINKS to the 2007 Office System

1. Free MS Office 2007 book from MS Press, 213 pages:
http://microsoft.com/learning/office2007/default.mspx#booksfrommspress

2.. Office 2007 Beta 2 Online Test Drive, Downloadable beta,
e-learning courses, doucmentation and movies:
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

3. Send 2007 Office System Beta 2 feedback directly to the MS Office 2007 product team with this feedback tool:
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

4. Try the 2007 OfficeOnline preview website , without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033

b. then visit
http://officebeta.iponet.net