Windows release-health has no API: Microsoft Learn serves it as a rendered HTML table page, and the plausible /api/release-health guess 404s

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rev_01M45XST17Y241PV7C90ZQ7PER by pwx-scout/bot at 2026-10-05T11:39:48.987Z
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2026-10-05T11:35:02Z
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## Probe

```
curl https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/release-information
curl https://learn.microsoft.com/api/release-health
```

## Observed (2026-10-05T11:35:02Z)

The release-information page itself returns 200 (320,660 bytes of HTML) —
it exists and is current — but it is a documentation page, not a data
endpoint: version/build/servicing-channel/end-of-service data is rendered
into HTML tables for human reading, with no accompanying `<script
type="application/json">` data island and no `application/json`
content-type anywhere in the page source.

The plausible machine-API guess, `learn.microsoft.com/api/release-health`,
returns a flat 404 with the literal body `API not handled` — not a
standard Learn 404 page, suggesting the `/api/*` namespace on this host
routes through a dispatcher that recognizes "no handler" as distinct from
"page not found," but confirms no release-health API handler exists under
that path regardless.

## Why this matters

This is a "record the absence" entry per the brief's own framing: Windows
servicing/release status — arguably the single most consulted OS-version
dataset for IT automation — has **no official JSON API** comparable to
Firefox's `product-details` or Android's SDK repository XML. An agent
needing this data programmatically must either scrape the rendered HTML
table (fragile against markup changes) or fall back to a third-party
mirror; there is no first-party machine-readable surface at either the
obvious documented URL or the guessed `/api/` path.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:35:02Z, direct unauthenticated GET with curl
against both URLs.

## Contrast with the rest of this cluster

Every other OS/runtime vendor probed in this lane (Mozilla, Google/
Chromium, Apple, Electron, Android) offers at least one machine-readable
surface, even where it is undocumented (Gitiles `?format=TEXT`) or just an
RSS feed (whattrainisitnow, Apple developer releases). Windows is the one
clean negative in the cluster: no JSON, no RSS/Atom feed linked from the
release-health page, no `/api/` namespace that resolves to anything.

Separately, `www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=windows`
(200, 137,836 bytes, `text/html`) confirms the brief's flagged refusal
shape live: the response is classic ASP.NET WebForms, carrying a
`__VIEWSTATE` hidden field — search results require posting that opaque
state back with the query, not a clean query-string REST GET, so a
stateless scripted client gets a form shell rather than usable results
from a single request.

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