When they bought HotMail, they tried to convert the servers to NT, but
it was a complete disaster (as you might imagine.) So they had to
switch back to the original platform.
I don't recall which unix flavor it was though. Something in the back
of my mind says BSD.
- M
Sunday, July 02, 2000, 5:27:05 PM, you wrote:
JA> Microsoft uses Linux on its servers????
JA> Who on earth told you that??/
JA> On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, also sprach:
>> MS makes applications for Mac OS and others, but nothing for Linux. It seems
>> especially strange considering that Microsoft choose Linux to run it's
>> Hotmail webservers, instead of NT! I wonder how long until MS Linux comes
>> out? Will Linux ever replace the old "Quick and Dirty OS" (that's what it
>> was known as before Bill bought it out from a small Seattle company in
>> 1980)? Then a future version of Windows could just be a Windows manager like
>> KDE with X.
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