Unable to open categories in mac app store.

i know this problem it's not at me alone, other users have also report of this bug. this problem exits on my macbook pro with os x 10.8.1, on my imac with 10.7 too.
anyone an idea, what's the matter of this problem?
Thanks.

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
It appears to be an Apple issue. Those links aren't working for many of us and perhaps for no one.

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