Star Vista Stakes Its Future on Security
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Dec 2005 15:38 UTC
Windows Microsoft is banking on enhancements to what it has dubbed the fundamentals to entice enterprises to upgrade to the next version of Windows, known as Vista. The company will use upcoming industry shows to sing the praises of improvements to the Windows networking stack and secure networking techniques such as server and domain isolation to sell both Vista and Longhorn, the planned update to Windows Server.
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RE[2]: lack of faith in MS
by on Tue 13th Dec 2005 03:49 UTC in reply to "RE: lack of faith in MS"

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netcraft claim that microsft uses windows you say? now whos pulling shit out of their ass?

"According to a post on the Netcraft Web site, Microsoft changed its DNS settings on Friday 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. "

"As of this writing, Netcraft reports that www.microsoft.com is still running on Linux, although microsoft.com is reported as running on Windows Server 2003. "
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RE[3]: lack of faith in MS
by on Tue 13th Dec 2005 03:53 in reply to "RE[2]: lack of faith in MS"
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And as of this writing, Netcraft's history report on www.microsoft.com shows it is currently running Windows Server 2003 on IIS, and has been going as far back as Netcraft keeps records. There is not one single Linux entry in there. Same story for microsoft.com, msdn.com, www.msdn.com

Thanks for playing. But you lose. Sorry.

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RE[4]: lack of faith in MS
by sappyvcv on Tue 13th Dec 2005 04:04 in reply to "RE[3]: lack of faith in MS"
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Hotmail ran on linux servers for a bit I think. But of course, Microsoft bought Hotmail and ended up making the transition to windows.

Also, Microsoft sometimes relies on a third-party for content delivery (akamai I think?) which may have servers that run on *nix.

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RE[4]: lack of faith in MS
by on Tue 13th Dec 2005 04:14 in reply to "RE[3]: lack of faith in MS"
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no, i win. you only decided to scratch the surface. you forgot to look a bit deeper into it. you will then discover that MS does indeed use linux on many of its ervers and network equipment.

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