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Many Microsoft servers are powered by Linux

• lawlit 15y ago
  Talking about "dogfooding" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
• thirsteh 15y ago
  The "Linux" servers are Akamai's.
• komapc 15y ago
  AFAIK, the servers itself are all-microsoft, most brobably netcraft.com is confused by load-balancers (akamai or something similar)
• laserDinosaur 15y ago
  This has been going on since windows NT launched (as in, that's when people first found out). They just outsource a lot of their website load to external hosts who run Linux.
• mnml_ 15y ago
  Akamai isn't Msft they just have subdomains pointed to it