Windows update without IE?

Yes! They say it's possible. You can use it with Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla or Opera. It pretty much works as IE (download a plugin, check the local system, present a list of updates...) but without IE :). I've tied it myself but I was already "up to date!", so I couldn't see any "real" action.

You can access it here. And, let's hope it lasts.

I wonder how it's going to handle Genuine Windows Adavantage...

Update
On a clean system, being kicked off by the Genuine Windows Advantage system (dam!), I logged on this site, I chose Firefox from the alternative list of browsers (it detected that I use IE and proposed an alternative), I downloaded it, installed it, logged back to the site using Firefox and started downloading updates. After installing the first 3, Firefox says "ok, we have an situation here... Firefox Is Down/Dead!". Ok, no problem, logged back, started the update (all the downloaded updates were already on my disk, so a download wasn't necessary. A few installations and "Bang!", believe it or not, Firefox is down on the battlefield, doing it's job? After a few sessions of this kind, and few restarts later (you need to restart because some of the patches will not be effective until you reboot - but no info about this, you have to figure it for yourself) you have all the updates provided by the site (possibly all the updates in Windows Update?)

Hey! I had little problems but not major ones. Firefox is unstable (low probability) or this plugin is doing some powerful stuff to Firefox...

Reporting on the battlefield: GWA was defeated