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You missed the point of the article
You are mistaken by saying, "The ability to serve up 50GB an hour to 4 million customers says something about scalability and robustness."

Because the WHOLE point of this article was to say:
"As a result, many customers found that the scan didn't work properly and they were NOT able to download the latest patches."

Not that if they actually did serve that many people in an hour I wouldn't be impressed. But I also have a desktop that CAN'T server 3-4 million customers an hour.

The basic problem is if there are over (let's say) 100 million copies of MS Windows XP out there. IF 10 percent of the machines are upgraded (and IT security in a companies would be right on top of it the first day), then that's 10 million updates the first day. They should have been prepared, even if personally I would not expect a storm of people to download the updates, they are running a business where the should have.
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If they only said...  voiceofreason_z | 04/14/04
4 mill per hour = 100 mill happy customers a day  oldskool | 04/14/04
Don't be silly  StorageGuru | 04/14/04
Another Evelyn Wood grad, I see...  Yen_z | 04/14/04
you better hope MS update didn't crash MS's service  oldskool | 04/14/04
Flawed logic  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
Correction!  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
Good thing they use Linux to cache their sites ....  oldskool | 04/15/04
You missed the point of the article  el1jones | 04/15/04
I missed nothing  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
HW upgrade fixed problem ? Did they add more linux caches?  oldskool | 04/15/04
oldskool please get the facts  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
Shadetree - didn't read the full article ... again...  el1jones | 04/15/04
Your own reference says MS moved off Windows to Hotmail  oldskool | 04/15/04
el1jones and oldskool can't face the truth  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
Since when does Hotmail not run on Linux?  oldskool | 04/15/04
Waiting for proof oldskool  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
Its not the network address doing the work ....  oldskool | 04/15/04
You have demonstrated nothing oldskool  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
Proof of what Hotmail runs on.  ShadeTree | 04/16/04
but they don't actually offer it up, Akamai does  Monkey_MCSE | 04/15/04
or was it conexion?(NT)  Monkey_MCSE | 04/15/04
Actually Savvis Comunications  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
and tonight its not SAVISS Windows 2003 but Hotmail/Linux  oldskool | 04/15/04
Keep on Grindin oldskool  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
your right, its not LINUX but *NIX holding up Hotmail  oldskool | 04/15/04
And it seems load balancing is done by CISCO's LD  oldskool | 04/15/04
Still no proof! oldskool  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
ya know what Shady, MS hasn't shut that content down!  oldskool | 04/15/04
If your article were true...  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
Wow, still going... Okay here's what I know...  el1jones | 04/15/04
And you know this because...  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
The Last Word  ShadeTree | 04/16/04
Glad Windows is a dying platform  Chad_z | 04/15/04
How is it dying?  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
Read His Post Again  Letophoro | 04/15/04
Again?! It wasn't read once!  el1jones | 04/15/04
Must be nice  CaptZapp | 04/15/04
Not to mention...  Jack-Booted EULA | 04/15/04
It's dying in my house... ...that's a start.  Oscar_Goldman | 04/15/04
This is bad news  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
don't worry, they will be back  V Sanders | 04/16/04
How is it dying?.. Can you say saturated market...  FreeBSD | 04/15/04
The OEMs are shipping about...  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
Stampede...NOT...automatic update...Yep!  Grimm Reaper | 04/15/04
Good point (NT)  el1jones | 04/15/04
We tried to tell them...  KOS-MOS | 04/15/04
Hey, Where's Cox?  el1jones | 04/15/04
Busy trying to download the updates  avdp | 04/15/04
Why not...  ryusen | 04/15/04
the article is guessing  V Sanders | 04/16/04
I had problems downloading as well  V Sanders | 04/16/04
Yep very slow to initialize and finish  FilledOut | 04/16/04
Yep very slow to initialize and finish  FilledOut | 04/16/04
Big problems with the update  lcseh | 04/16/04
I don't know about that 4 hours . . .  rlalogia | 04/16/04

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