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[News] Windows Server 2008 Web Site Uses Fedora Spinner (Linux) Preloader

  • Subject: [News] Windows Server 2008 Web Site Uses Fedora Spinner (Linux) Preloader
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:34:17 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Ouch!

The Flash preloader uses the Fedora Spinner.

https://www. microsoft.com/ servers/ faces/default.aspx

This isn't the first time Linux is used on Microsoft's Web site. Fedora is used
elsewhere on the site. There's also thus MSN blockm which uses GNU/Linux with
Apache.

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=sympatico.msn.vitevitevite.ca

No Akamai here.

A couple of months ago, Microsoft.com got defaced.

http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=msownedba6.png

Running Windows. What else?


Related:

Top secret: Microsoft's $6 billion open source play

,----[ Quote ]
| This month's announcement by Microsoft to acquire digital marketing
| services firm aQuantive has revealed little on how the companies 
| will integrate their IT, but inside information indicates the deal 
| may be Redmond's largest commitment to free software.
|
| [...]
|
| Whether the businesses are complementary or not, Microsoft's integration 
| work will no doubt involve a lot of open source software used by aQuantive.
|
| Information available from Atlas' Web site indicates the Internet software 
| company employs extensive use of open source software including Linux,
| Apache, MySQL, and Solaris.
|
| Software engineers at Atlas' Raleigh office do client/server development in 
| C and C++, software maintenance and "scripting", and developing and
| maintaining custom reporting capabilities. 
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1616039231;fp;2;fpid;1


It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux

,----[ Quote ]
| What the press statement didn't mention is that Aruba mobility
| controllers run the Linux operating system which Microsoft has
| aggressively targeted as being inferior to Windows as part of
| its "Get the Facts" marketing campaign.
|
| [...]
|
| Pandey's appraisal of Aruba's technology is in stark contrast to 
| Microsoft's "Get the Facts" rhetoric which places Windows as a more secure, 
| and higher-performing choice over Linux.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;754084996;fp;2;fpid;1

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