[ale] M$ runs Linux?

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim Philips)]

Raju wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32378.html
> 
> "Meanwhile Netcraft reports that on Friday Microsoft changed its DNS so
> that requests for www.microsoft.com no longer resolve to machines on
> Microsoft??s own network, but instead are handled by the Akamai caching
> system, which runs Linux"
> 
> Hilarious....;-)
> 
> --Raju

Well, Akamai runs Linux and has for awhile. But all they are doing is 
rerouting traffic that was going to the URL windowsupdate.microsoft.com, 
which was only a redirect. Think about it. Microsoft programs things 
using their own architecture and that stuff doesn't run on Linux. There 
was a debunk article I read earlier today explaining this urban legend.

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