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Debugging Microsoft.com

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the belly-of-the-beast dept.

teslatug writes "Channel 9 has an interesting video interview with Chris St.Amand and Jeff Stucky who test and debug Microsoft.com. They reveal some of the big problems they used to face such as recycling processes every 5 minutes due to memory leaks and 32 bit limitations, and being unable to push more than 10 Mbits of data to their datacenters due to Windows' networking stack limitations."

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  1. Re:Easy. by the_humeister · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Like the other guy said, the codecs are binary and proprietary, although mplayer and xine can play some wmv files right off the bat. Additionally, good luck getting the binary codecs to work under a 64-bit unix-like os.

  2. Re:Video transcribed below: by Xyleene · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anonymous Coward, I clicked on the replies to this post (as they were rated 0) just cuz I knew there would be a douche just like you writing an asshat comment about the post.

    Thanks for not dissapointing :)

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  3. Re:10Mbits/s? really? by Linker3000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yep, then they replaced the 8-bit 3COM 3C501 NIC and they were flyin'

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