Intresting Read !

[baileyphil]

Just thought this maybe of intrest to somebody, intresting to see Microsoft are mostly on Server 2008

http://bink.nu/news/microsoft-it-numbers.aspx

Phil

[gosh]

That info came from microsoft in a public relations meeting. What do you expect microsoft to say? "we're using linux on 20% of our boxes"?

-gosh

[cluberti]

It is true though - Microsoft does dogfood all new products in beta, and switches production over as close to release as possible.

[Camarade_Tux]

The thing that scares me most is 97% of the mails are spam !

[tain]

It is true though - Microsoft does dogfood all new products in beta, and switches production over as close to release as possible.

Isn't that a recent phenomenon? I seem to recall reading in the past year or so that they were *starting* to do that.

[Stoic Joker]

The thing that scares me most is 97% of the mails are spam !

That's actually (sadly) normal. Spammers like to flood a domain with huge lists of common names hoping to use the NDRs to identify "live" addresses for a more focused 2nd wave of active spamming.

the Access db used by GFi got blown apart in the first 3mo at our office because the spam count went (way) past 4 million in that time period... I gave up on getting reports and am just letting it auto-delete the domain harvesting stuff. Only the keyword filtered stuff goes to an isolated box for further review (e.g. sombody notices something is missing) and just that runs close to 10,000 pieces of spam a week.

[cluberti]

It is true though - Microsoft does dogfood all new products in beta, and switches production over as close to release as possible.

Isn't that a recent phenomenon? I seem to recall reading in the past year or so that they were *starting* to do that.

I think it started with 2003, but I could be wrong. That's the first I remember hearing of the practice.

[nmX.Memnoch]

I think it started with 2003

I know it happened with 2003, but I think it actually started with 2000 (which was called NT 5.0 at the time). I could be wrong as well though...