a paper I can't find...

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Nov 27 07:36:14 UTC 2007


Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 07:11 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>> I was thinking of other leaked papers, from when MS assessed the 
>> feasibility of running Hotmail on  Windows (I think it was on FreeBSD 
>> when it bought it). That was pretty damning of Windows, and some of
>> the problems it highlighted have been addressed. 
> 
> Yes, that was amusing.  Not just that it wasn't running on Windows, but
> that it wasn't even possible to (at the time).
> 
> Windows may be fair on a terminal, but it left, and probably still does
> leave, a lot to be desired for servers.  And I'm sure that all the
> mainframe guys must laugh their asses off at businesses which have to go
> around updating hundreds or thousands of stand-alone terminals, compared
> to updating one server and doing nothing to all the dumb terminals.
> 

And those of us who know how to update masses of Windows systems will be 
laughing at people like you who don't.

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=wsus+site%3Amicrosoft.com

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Cheers
John

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