Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month. On Dec. 15, a Russian programmer posted a description of a flaw that makes it possible to increase a user's privileges on all of the company's recent operating systems, including Vista. Update by Thom: Ars thinks the situation is hot air, mostly, something I agree with (a cracker already has to have login credentials for the flaws to be of any use).
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Member since:2005-10-14
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Also, keep a watch on N1etcraft for microsoft.com servers being hosted on Linux servers each time there is a perceived threat form a Windows worm about to hit. Although a lot of people around here claim that Microsoft use a 3rd party, and it is the 3rd party that uses Linux, none of them can answer WHY ?
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I seem to remember that MS turn to Akamai to deliver their website when the need arises - and Akamai's servers run Linux.
Member since:2005-11-10
I do not believe it's a true statement (And MS has not made it) That hotmail is 100% IIS.
Netcraft is not a valid place to get info in this as you will find out using netcraft that a lot of companies mask behind firwalls and other IDS tools what they are actually running on the machines serving the data.
Also it's been long reported that for almost all their downloading for Windows Update etc plus most of their DNS they use Akamai which has a distributed network of Linux servers (20 + thousand Linux servers)
As Google has shown it's easy to throw up and make a custom version of Linux for tasks like this.
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2005-07-06
Not exactly
Microsoft has completed switching the Hotmail servers over to IIS. ALthough this is reflecting badlyt in system speed and uptime, and an increasing amount of spam, even from accounts that have not been used. Figure that one out....
Also, keep a watch on N1etcraft for microsoft.com servers being hosted on Linux servers each time there is a perceived threat form a Windows worm about to hit. Although a lot of people around here claim that Microsoft use a 3rd party, and it is the 3rd party that uses Linux, none of them can answer WHY ?