Is true that Microsoft doesn't use products Microsoft in web servers in half the time ?

[John Howie]

Hotmail was running on FreeBSD and Solaris when Microsoft bought it. It is now on Windows.

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> On Oct 18, 2014, at 11:40 AM, David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:13:28PM -0300, françai s wrote:
>> 
>> Is true that Microsoft doesn't use products Microsoft in web servers
>> in half the time ?
> It has been a very long time--the dot-com era--since I heard anything
> about this. Apparently at that time, Microsoft was using FreeBSD for
> hotmail and several attempts to convert it to a Windows platform had
> failed.
> 
> The irony of this gave one of my co-workers at Linuxcare at the time
> no small amount of delight. She was a strong FreeBSD advocate.
> 
> But I *think* they eventually overcame the hurdles and hotmail is now
> running on a Microsoft platform.
> 
> -- 
> David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>
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