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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:What the... by bigbadunix · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How about putting an end to the lame-ass anti-MS sentiment and one of you people take the time to transcribe the video rather than wasting all our time making comments which have nothing to do about the post?

    I know, that'd be too fresh and productive.

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  2. Re:Easy. by kernelpanicked · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes that is absolutely what I'm saying...and for the Linux guys I'll even point out the rpm http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/2/s earch/MPlayer-w32codecs-1.0pre7try2-15.sparc.rpm

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