www.microsoft.com runs Linux?

UnseenMenace

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On Friday Microsoft changed its DNS so that requests for www.microsoft.com no longer resolve to machines on Microsoft’s own network, but instead are handled by the Akamai caching system, which runs Linux. This action was taken to protect themselves from the DOS attack of the blaster worm on Windows Update... Says it all really, if they don't trust their own products how to the expect the customer to do the same


http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/17/wwwmicrosoftcom_runs_linux_up_to_a_point_.html

 

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Another amusing side effect of this situation now is that the much hyped MS passport system finds that some passport related URLs now pop up a Security Alert saying "The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site"

Does this mean MS should be considered to be using invalid passports or that the passport system is flawed ?

 

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Well, what can I say, they migrate to linux, so should all of us.

 

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Here's an article which explains exectly what they did. Just to make it clear for everyone.

http://theregister.com/content/4/32385.html

-DarkArctic

 

eli

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Doesn't hotmail (MS owned) run linux servers?

 

moorcito

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I from what I remember Hotmail ran on BSD, and Solaris, but they have since converted it to IIS. I think the whole Hotmail on Linux is another one of those urban myths.

 

Spade

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eli, thats the weirdest looking avatar..
poor cat.

 

eli

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Spade said:

eli, thats the weirdest looking avatar..
poor cat.

Click to expand...

I agree. I really like it though.

 

XWRed1

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Hotmail ran on FreeBSD, Microsoft eventually got it switched over to Win2k w/ IIS after alot of trouble and false starts. There's actually this internal report written by one of the engineers on that project that details some of the advantages Unix had over Windows and why that hindered the conversion.

 

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Remember, Hotmail wasn't ALWAYS owned by Microsoft.

 

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i seem to remember reading that ms only converted the front end of hotmail to windows products and the backend is still running freebsd. they also discussed how it would be nearly impossible to make the move on the backend.