Re: XP has no significant bugs that any significant number of users want fixed

From: Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:23:25 +0000

Rich Grise wrote:

>who was that smart aleck that started the UL that they're
>running Linux/Apache?

The Linux part is a fact. Look here:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/17/wwwmicrosoftcom_runs_linux_up_to_a_point_.html
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=download.windowsupdate.com
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=beta.search.msn.com

>So, are there any brave scriptkiddies who feel like taking
>down the M$ site, just for a lark? ;-)

That would be rather easy to do, except for the fact that Microsoft
runs Akamai. Akamai defends Microsoft against distributed denial-
of-service (DDOS) attacks by spreading the attack among many servers.

Akamai runs only on Linux. So Microsoft does indeed use IIS instead of
Apache to run most of it's websites, but those website are protected by
Linux Akamai.

Also see:
http://www.internetweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=13100775

.

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