Aug 3, 2000 : https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-moving-hotmail-to-win2000-servers/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-moving-hotmail-to-win2000-s... > It has been

Aug 3, 2000 : https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-moving-hotmail-to-win2000-servers/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-moving-hotmail-to-win2000-s... > It has been an ongoing sore spot for Microsoft that its highly trafficked Hotmail site runs atop not its own operating system, but the FreeBSD-Apache platform. > Since it bought Hotmail at the end of 1997, Microsoft repeatedly promised that it would transition Hotmail to Windows NT, then Windows 2000. More than anything, Microsoft's desire was a matter of personal pride. What better way to prove its own contention that NT was just as scalable and robust as Unix than to run its complex, free, Web-based email infrastructure on it. According to the market watchers at Netcraft -- an Internet consultancy based in Bath in the UK -- Microsoft finally has commenced the long-awaited Hotmail migration.