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Any real surprises there? Microsoft even has some GPL tools, released in their Services for Unix package.
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Whatever it takes to keep it up
 
I commend them for it.
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since ws is the most widely used os in the world it would makes sense that it would also be the most hacked and slashed.
changing to a competitive os makes a ton of sense
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Actually this is not true.
Microsoft use Akamai caching service which runs under linux.
However the real servers behind running and actually serving the content are Windows 2003 servers.
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You beat me to mentioning this very thing BladeRunner
 
Do you know if Akamai uses something like squid for their caching servers or is this a pretty standard config for *nix caching servers ;(
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