Re: Microsoft depends on linux to get the work done

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"糊涂人" <Ê‚º@h.com> wrote in message news:49b30172$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The idiots in this newsgroup who keep claiming that linux is worthless,
dont know much about technology. Its a known fact that Microsoft uses unix based servers for many of its services including hotmail, and when they tried to switch to windows severs it was a TOTAL FLOP!

yet you have these computer illiterate microsoft fanboys claiming that vista is the best OS ever!

Good griefffffff!!!!!

http://www.plex86.org/linux/Hotmail-Platform-is-Hosted-on-Unix-88.html

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When Microsoft purchased Hotmail, they tried to convert everything to Windows NT 4.0, and it was a disaster. A wintroll COLA poster using the moniker "Drestin Black" was working on the project, and was quite brazen in his boasts that Hotmail would be running on Windows NT 4.0 and Exchange within a year. The project failed, and Hotmail was still on FreeBSD and Solaris.

When Windows 2000 came out, Microsoft tried again, and again, our friend Drestin Black was happy to boast about how Windows 2000 would blow UNIX out of the water. About all Micrososft was able to do was replace the front-end web server machines with IIS. Even then hotmail got hit by Nimda and some other viruses, but Microsoft has tried to keep as many of the public facing http servers as possible configured as Windows-IIS machines. Originally, it took 4 times as many Windows machines as UNIX machines to maintain stable and redundant connectivity.

Microsoft has upgraded the Windows 2000 servers with Windows 2003, but they have made no announcement indicating that Windows 2003 and Exchange are now providing the back-end servers for Hotmail.

Microsoft likes having Hotmail, because it gives them the ability to "wire-tap" millions of e-mail users. They can monitor attachments and identify piracy as well as maintaining statistics on incoming messages and their origins. The SMTP header can often provide clues as to the e-mail client used, the relay software used, and the operating systems and mail engines used along the path.

And just who cares if they use linux servers. Face it dude,linux on the desktop is a none issue,zip nada. It has less then 1% market share and not gaining any ground. People just dont want to use Linux desktops,get over it

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