"Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba. Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors as part of the European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the antitrust lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on September 17th 2007."
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Member since:2005-07-06
You extol Microsoft product here all the time....
What is wrong with Microsoft using a company that does use its products for web distribution ? Is there any ?
I can't find any on Netcraft, now, why is that ?
Is it because there is a Linux monopoly in this sector of the market, or is it because the performance of Windows is unimpressive ?
I presented you with stark facts, and still you tried to turn them around and make it out to be something that I had misinterpreted. I will spell it out again.
FOR MISSION CRITICAL PURPOSES, MICROSOFT WILL NOT USE ITS OWN PRODUCTS, SO WHY SHOULD WE?
btw - you should look for a new employer.
Member since:2006-01-02
I've only been here for a few months... it's a bit soon to move, no? Plus I find my job to be interesting and I'm learning quite a bit.
I'm not going to continue this thread any further, but I will tell you that every server I have encountered at work runs Windows. Microsoft takes using its own stuff very seriously. A number of flagship online products run exclusively on Windows with high reliability. Live, Hotmail, and the various pieces of MSN are all hosted on Windows. It seems like akamai is mostly used for just pushing static files out around the world. But you're welcome to believe what you want.
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2006-01-02
Well, it might tell YOU that, but all it tells me is that Microsoft uses Akamai for global web distribution and doesn't try to force them to use Windows. Just do a traceroute to that search site and you'll see akamai.
By the same measure, you should take a look at store.apple.com. I was a bit surprised by what they were actually using, but I think they made a good choice there.