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by **Meck** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:24 am

Know Microsoft's new search-engine "bing"???
Guess what OS works on their server:

*check*

by **Anxyous** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:40 am

by **machineman9** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:10 am

I don't see the funny side... Linux is just a better operating system for working with servers. If anything it is good that they are using it!

:-/

by **Meck** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:32 am

I don't see the funny side... Linux is just a better operating system for working with servers. If anything it is good that they are using it!

:-/

But why do they provide OSs like Server2008 then??? :-?

by **machineman9** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:40 am

I don't see the funny side... Linux is just a better operating system for working with servers. If anything it is good that they are using it!

:-/

But why do they provide OSs like Server2008 then???

by **Ravang** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:05 am

Microsoft doesn't own the servers, they just developed the website. The servers they are using to host the site is owned by Akamai Technologies.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=EU-AKAMAI-20071113,92.122.0.0,92.123.255.255

by **HarvesteR** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:05 am

Even so, very funny!!

This raises a question: I wonder if EVERY SINGLE computer at MS headquarters is running Windows ::)

hmm..

Cheers

by **machineman9** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:33 am

[quote]Even so, very funny!!

This raises a question: I wonder if EVERY SINGLE computer at MS headquarters is running Windows

OS used by Microsoft