On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hotmail is not completely on Windows – yet. J It will be moved to Office 365 > soon.
Oh, my. That's a very long transition. I had thought they finished that a long time ago. > (BTW, the backend for HoTMaiL was Solaris, the frontend was Apache on > FreeBSD.) OK - I didn't know that. > All the supernodes for Consumer Skype run Linux. Oh, crikey. I completely forgot about that. But I would have thought they made that transition too. I suppose it's comforting to see even the largest orgs deal with legacy issues. Kurt > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 10:50 PM > To: ntsysadm > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Someone's now selling ice skates in... > > > > I'm only familiar with MSFT's use of *nix with Xenix (which of course > disappeared eons ago) and FreeBSD (which was what Hotmail was based upon, but > they phased it out.) > > Is there something I missed? > > Kurt > > > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Just another distro, in my view. And it isn't the first time Microsoft has > used Linux in its data centers. > > Sent from my Windows Phone > > ________________________________ > > From: Andrew S. Baker > Sent: 9/20/2015 4:46 PM > To: ntsysadm > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Someone's now selling ice skates in... > > Why would this be considered as Microsoft "building a Linux" ? > > > > > > > ASB > http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker > Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the > SMB market… > > GPG: 1AF3 EEC3 7C3C E88E B0EF 4319 8F28 A483 A182 EF3A > > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hell > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux_repeat_microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux/ > > > >
