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Microsoft Migrates Internal Servers to 64-bit

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the movin-on-up dept.

daria42 writes "Microsoft says servers running the company's website and MSN Search and Messenger applications have been migrated to the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003. 'Our MSN search engine is actually built on several thousand systems running the x64 version of Windows,' a spokesperson said. In addition, 'the entire Microsoft.com site has been migrated, and we serve 30 million unique visitors every day.' According to the company, the Messenger servers handle about 70 million users."

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  1. Bill, Bill, Bill... by Lostie · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I guess Gates has found out the hard way that "640k should be enough for anyone" does not really scale very well to 70 million users.
    Maybe that's why MSN Messenger has such frequent disconnection issues.

    Also, do they have a dedicated team whose sole job it is to run round rebooting all the machines when they BSOD?

    1. Re:Bill, Bill, Bill... by Neophytus · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Why does this quote still get used as if it's somehow relevant? By today's specs 1TB of hard disk space should be enough for anybody but that's not to say that in five years it will be.

    2. Re:Bill, Bill, Bill... by sriram_2001 · · Score: -1, Redundant

      Bill Gates never said this.He even talked about this quote during the WInHEC conference. He said that he wanted to set the record straight about him and that quote. He also played safe by saying that someday, someone would want more than 2^64 of accessible memory

  2. First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Wee

  3. what piece of trash by suezz · · Score: -1, Redundant

    just went to their web site to get some drivers for my cousin and it locked my machine - Of course I am using unbuntu and firefox -

    funny thing is when I unplugged my network cable I got my mouse back and disconnected from their site -
    seems everything works fine now but I sure hope they weren't trying to put sypware or root kit on my computer.

    they will hear from if I find anything.

    piss off microsoft - what are you now keeping people that don't run your os from your web site.