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  Microsoft Is Using Linux To Protect Its Own Web Site
Time: 10:14 EST/15:14 GMT | News Source: Internet Week | Posted By: Robert Stein

Microsoft has made a big deal out of asserting that Linux is not fit for the enterprise. But Microsoft itself is using Linux to help protect its servers against denial-of-service attacks. According to a post on the Netcraft Web site, Microsoft changed its DNS settings on Friday 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 runs Linux.

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