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Oh, and by the way

Oh, and by the way
That new Windows Update server at Microsoft, the one that's worm-DoS free? It's running Linux.

From Netcraft

The site v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Linux .

Impossible you say? Just ask the kind folks at Akami, who pulled Microsoft's buns out of the DoS fire on Friday with a bit of their global caching magic.