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Story: Microsoft hides behind Linux for protection
Posted by: Conrad (Friday 5 September 2003, 1:12 AM)
Well, Honeslty I don't know who this company that caches page but, I see 2 advantages to this.
1) M$ doesn't have to pay for as much bandwith.
2) Microsoft is protected from a direct attack.
Now honestly if I were this company, I would have cut M$ off for abusing the system.
I have been wating for this day, that the reply from Microsoft is a UNIX or a BSD base. Honestly we all know windows is weak on security, probably are vulnerable still to some of there own known attacks.
I only see one reason for routing through a system you down own when ya obviously have the bandwith, your fearing a direct access attempt.(lets face it crackers/script kiddies arn't to bright, they use domain names, instead of ip#'s or a combination of the two, to attack a system, this will send all attacks to the cache server instead of the M$ servers, protecting them, allowign transactions to compleat w/o most users knowing they are using a cache system, or noticing a server failure should one occure.
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Story: Microsoft hides behind Linux for protection
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I have been waiting for 13 years for microsoft to... Anonymous -
Enough said!! Anonymous
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Well it is about time. MS started to give in for t... Abe
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It defies logic. Not the worm but Microsoft's Choi... Dariusz Zelichowski
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HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!! Anonymous
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hahaha. that must be a blow to microsoft executive... Folle Rec
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M$ must be eating tons of crow: What a tacet admis... swbobcat
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I think the headline speaks volumes. enough said. Oscar Goldman
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Well now it would seem to me that ol M$ themselfs... Peter Nikolic
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Sensationalism.
Iam a one-eyed GNU/Linux lover and... Anonymous guy
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Don't get me wrong, I'm a linux enthusiast. I've g... Simon
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Just because microsoft is using a Linux system to... David Guenther
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I think that it's great that people from Microsoft... Milan Uremovic
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Microsoft is not afraid to use other operating sys... Magnesium|CW|
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IT's so funny to see Microsoft's behaviour! The ma... Anonymous
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It seems that Microsoft is running from their own... Tosin A. Atolagbe
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It's a great move from the MS perspective. Now tho... Kunal Jain
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Talk about spin! MIcrosoft choose Akamai becaus... Darren DeNunzio
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M$ stuff is just plain junk. 2000 was said to be s... Anonymous
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Well, Honeslty I don't know who this company that... Conrad -
Someone wrote this thingie ->>>
Talk about spin! M... Henrik Pihl
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This shows that Microsoft do not have much faith i... Anonymous
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Very funny!
I wonder why Big Bll decided not to u... "RedHat" rik ford
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