> > Why would Microsoft be using Solaris, or Linux even? (hint, the same
> > reason -- their stuff works less good).
>
> Do you know for a fact that they do? If so, how? That'd be a very cool
> tidbit of information to share . . .
Yep it is (was) true. We used to laugh about it at work. (We were in the
middle of
a big Unix vs. NT debate). They used solaris on their web servers early on.
(Probably
because a) The Intel "server class" machine market was relatively immature
at that point
and b) Prior to NT4 SP3, NT had no chance of holding up under any sort of
load).
They are all Win2k now last time I checked.
Hotmail did use FreeBSD as I recall. This was an external company that
Microsoft
acquired and they made the decision not to completely rewrite it when they
acquired it
(although considering how completely clueless Hotmail was about web security
they
probably should've done it).
There are (or used to be) some number of publically available Linux boxes in
the
microsoft.com domain. (Mostly in their research labs.) You should be able
to
do a web or deja search and find info on them if you are really interested.
-Brian
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