A slap on the face of Microsoft lovers
Do you know ?
microsoft.com runs on Linux !
You be the judge !
It had to happen some day !
Even
Microsoft does not trust Windows. So,
why do you still hang on to it ? Clearly, MS needs the Linux based
Akamai, to defend itself. And then, as a face-saving (lame) excuse, it
terms Akamai, as just a "Linux like" system . Let us see how far this
is true :
The following analysis has been downloaded from :
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4962 Does anyone
still need proof about the true worth of MeSsy, fliMSy, cluMSy,
Windows ?
Even if we accept that Akamai is only a "Linux like"
system, why does'nt MS look for a "Windows like" system ? No
prizes for guessing !
On Friday 22 August 2003, Microsoft (MS) changed its DNS so that
requests for www.microsoft.com no longer resolve to machines on
Microsoft's own network, but instead are handled by the Akamai
caching system, which, ironically, runs Linux. Akamai, one of the
largest users of Linux, provides a robust, internet-wide caching
system, which can act as a symmetric defence to distributed denial of
service attacks. Its dependence on Linux based Akamai service proves
that MS could neither persuade Akamai to use the MS-Windows operating
system, nor could it find a suffciently robust service which works
under MS- Windows.
Bundler of blunders :
Literature
(and common experience) is full of instances to show how MS-Windows
has been plagued by every form of peril e.g. bugs, viruses, worms,
denial of service attacks, intrusions, break-in etc., causing
unmeasurable loss to users of MS- Windows based systems and networks.
Here is a rogues gallery of security
blunders. Here are just two confessions: (Confession #1) and (Confession #2). In spite of all the
wishful dreams and promises, here is
what you get from this same vendor, several months and several
heart-attacks later (Dec. 2002). How long more do you
want to put up with this
scandal ?
You thought it is all over, and MS has done
its homework ? -- think again One year later (Sept. 2003),
MS has still not finished fumbling.
Even MS has given up, and MS now
asks for help from
Linux.
When will YOU ever change ?
Wake up now !
See what the experts have to say
This news item was compiled by a Linux fan, to save you from further misery.
