Delicious Schadenfreude from London

[Christopher Chan]

> Years ago, Micro$oft bought Hotmail.com.  At that time it was running
> Linux.  M$ switched the service to Windows NT and almost immediately
>   
and running qmail in addition to the corrections of not Linux but 
FreeBSD and Solaris by Samuel.

> there were issues.  The servers kept crashing, when they didn't crash
> the service was horribly slow, and several times just trying to read
> your mail you got M$ SQL errors .... just trying to READ your emails.
> It was so bad they had to switch back to what Hotmail was using
>   
Now this you will have to prove as I believe they are all Windows based 
today and certainly were Windows based up till 2006.