[Silhouette]

But the Update Catalog shows updates that you can apparently download as usual for Windows 7 in this case. There is a specific rationale given on at least one of the reports[1] for why a patch is still being issued even though Windows 7 is out of support. So I'm not sure this time it has anything to do with ESU.

[1] https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/...

[tgragnato]

Last week I saw a friend using dot net software that scrapes the Catalog, automatically downloads all patches and applies them to the system. It's apparently common in enterprises without an ESU subscription... I was quite surprised and amused

[ck2]

If that software is available to the public it would be a great service to name or link it if you can find out what it is.

[tgragnato]

It's not public because of licensing. But it's a simple reimplementation of https://www.wsusoffline.net.

Source code here: https://gitlab.com/wsusoffline/wsusoffline

[developer2]

Hahah, that's actually awesome. Of course someone out there put in the leg work to work around the licensing issue, and then shared it to the (minor?) masses.