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Microsoft did buy Hotmail
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 12:43 PM EDT

Microsoft tried really hard to get Hotmail software to run on Windows. The first attempts were spectacular failures. Not sure if they ever succeeded.

After the hotmail debacle, Microsoft learned a lesson internally. They will use Linux when appropriate, and will not blindly rip out an acquisitions Linux infrastructure.

This lesson has affected Bing, which has been reported to run Linux.

Also, Microsoft does use open-source software in Microsoft Windows. Microsoft's networking stack for many years was based on BSD. This can be readily seen by typing ftp or telnet at the command line. Eventually, the stack was supposedly rewritten from scratch. Nevertheless, the Windows 7 ftp client looks like almost identical to a really old unix ftp client.

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Microsoft did buy Hotmail
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 01:57 PM EDT
It took more than just one attempt. At one point, they were claiming to have
switched everything over, and that turned out not to be the case. On wikipedia,
it's stated that at one point they had switched everything over but the DNS.

I seem to remember something more along the lines of proxies set up in order to
hide the fact that the mail servers themselves were still BSD. I would have
actually been impressed if they had managed to successfully switch everything
over except for bind back then.

The account wikipedia is referring to had to have happened at a later date(or
someone is trying really hard to forget the laughter that echoed back and forth
over it :) ).

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