Microsoft runs VERY little of their own servers (internal and internet). "How does Minister_Sinister know this?" you may ask. Simply put, I worked for COMPAQ in the OPERATIONS center in Washington. Compaq and Microsoft openly acknowledge this relationship in several press releases and it is crammed all over Compaq's enterprise areas of its web site. This is a ridiculous comment to make. COMPAQ runs mainly Compaq 6500 and 8500 machines with Windows 2000 Advanced Server. They have been on Windows 2000 Advanced Server since well before the official release. Hotmail is a whole other story. It is run separately, which makes sense since it was actually a buy-out and not a Microsoft innovation, originially.
In closing, journalism like this on the internet is a good reason for a MAJOR set back. CHECK YOUR SOURCES! Any good journalist would. This is what the difference is between some web-reporting lackey and a professional news reporter.
My 2 Cents....
Making a political comment (whether for one party, another party, or no party at all) on a web site that is devoted to "News for Nerds" is a very foolish thing to do. You sound like the rest of the media now, making political comments to influence others. What a childish thing to do. Keep Slashdot devoted to computer related news and keep your political comments to forums at cnn.com or msnbc.com. This is what I call a form of abuse of web-power.
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Microsoft runs VERY little of their own servers (internal and internet). "How does Minister_Sinister know this?" you may ask. Simply put, I worked for COMPAQ in the OPERATIONS center in Washington. Compaq and Microsoft openly acknowledge this relationship in several press releases and it is crammed all over Compaq's enterprise areas of its web site. This is a ridiculous comment to make. COMPAQ runs mainly Compaq 6500 and 8500 machines with Windows 2000 Advanced Server. They have been on Windows 2000 Advanced Server since well before the official release. Hotmail is a whole other story. It is run separately, which makes sense since it was actually a buy-out and not a Microsoft innovation, originially. In closing, journalism like this on the internet is a good reason for a MAJOR set back. CHECK YOUR SOURCES! Any good journalist would. This is what the difference is between some web-reporting lackey and a professional news reporter. My 2 Cents....
Making a political comment (whether for one party, another party, or no party at all) on a web site that is devoted to "News for Nerds" is a very foolish thing to do. You sound like the rest of the media now, making political comments to influence others. What a childish thing to do. Keep Slashdot devoted to computer related news and keep your political comments to forums at cnn.com or msnbc.com. This is what I call a form of abuse of web-power.