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Shadetree - didn't read the full article ... again...
It's all in the article you graciously refered to.

They were using Linux to serve pages, switching to Linux right before the Blaster worm attack.

"Microsoft's strategy drew considerable attention, as the front page of the www.microsoft.com site was served by Linux machines on Akamai's network. Today Savvis was using Windows Server 2003 to manage the Windows Update traffic. This evening the site is being served from a netblock assigned to Hotmail, Microsoft's e-mail service."

Then seem to have switched to Savvis to manage the surge of update traffic yesterday.


as of last August:
"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."
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/17/wwwmicrosoftcom_runs_linux_up_to_a_point_.html
Posted by: el1jones   Posted on: 04/15/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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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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