Many Microsoft servers are powered by Linux

Posted by lawlit on Sunday July 31, 2011 @09:47AM
from the searchdns.netcraft.com dept.

http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?restriction=site+ends+with&host=microsoft.com&lookup=wait..&position=limited

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Re:Many Microsoft servers are powered by Linux by komapc on Sunday July 31, 2011 @09:58AM (#2828326)

AFAIK, the servers itself are all-microsoft, most brobably netcraft.com is confused by load-balancers (akamai or something similar)

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Re:Many Microsoft servers are powered by Linux by thirsteh on Sunday July 31, 2011 @09:58AM (#2828325)

The "Linux" servers are Akamai's.

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Re:Many Microsoft servers are powered by Linux by laserDinosaur on Sunday July 31, 2011 @10:06AM (#2828335)

This has been going on since windows NT launched (as in, that's when people first found out). They just outsource a lot of their website load to external hosts who run Linux.

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Re:Many Microsoft servers are powered by Linux by mnml_ on Thursday August 04, 2011 @04:22AM (#2845120)

Akamai isn't Msft they just have subdomains pointed to it

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Re:Many Microsoft servers are powered by Linux by lawlit on Sunday July 31, 2011 @09:50AM (#2828311)

Talking about "dogfooding" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food

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