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Re: Microsoft.com running Linux?? - Heh heh heh heh heh

On Sat, 24 May 2008 22:53:11 -0400, ~flyer~ wrote:

> Microsoft has just got to be the biggest joke ever to be scraped off of
> anything anywhere ever.
> 
> True or not, only the Redmond Idiot Bin would allow something like this
> to creep up out of the sludge where it self replicates in huge cancer-
> like masses daily to spew out utter garbage like vista and other
> sprawling viruses.
> 
> 
> From Roy's Post:
> 
> Talking of Netcraft, it has a rather interesting search that lets you
> find out what OS any site is running and it lists download.microsoft.com
> and search.microsoft.com as running Linux. Strange, if true.

IIRC, Microsoft uses the Akamai network to distribute load, and Akamai is 
Linux-based - meaning MS isn't actually using Linux for this, they're 
just using a global distribution network which itself happens to use 
Linux.

Still, it is kinda funny, sorta.


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