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So, Microsoft would use Linux boxes..

• beagle3 14y ago
  When they bought hotmail, it took them years to migrate off the freebsd boxes that was running it -- they had several failures, and when they finally succeeded, they needed several times as many NT boxes as the original BSD boxes. I would guess that the supernode software was written by skype long before the acquisition (they were running their own supernodes, despite what the article claims -- although not as many, and most supernodes were users), and microsoft hasn't had the chance or the reason to port them to Windows yet.
• zethraeus 14y ago
  It's not at all unheard of for companies to do this kind of thing as a stopgap. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/02/icloud_runs_on_microsoft_azure_and_amazon/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/02/icloud_runs_on_micro...