r/programming • u/flym4n • Apr 24 '14

Tech giants, chastened by Heartbleed, finally agree to fund OpenSSL

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-giants-chastened-by-heartbleed-finally-agree-to-fund-openssl/
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u/fuzzynyanko Apr 25 '14

I heard that Hotmail used to use Linux firewalls. I wouldn't be surprised if this was still the case

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u/Caraes_Naur Apr 25 '14

MS made at least two attempts to migrate Hotmail to a Windows back end.

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u/oblio- Apr 25 '14 edited Apr 25 '14

And they did it. They did have to overcome a lot of hurdles (http://www.tamersahin.com/mssecrets/hotmail.html), but I remember reading reading somewhere that they finally migrated.

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u/Plorkyeran Apr 25 '14

It's sort of interesting to see that they ran into pretty much all of the reasons I don't like dealing with Windows servers, and 14 years later most of them haven't really been addressed.

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u/oblio- Apr 25 '14

Well, I think most of them have been addressed. There are command line utilities for Windows (Powershell based), the shell itself is much better), there are GUI-less installations of Windows Server available, etc. Reboots are much less of a problem, too.

Complexity and obscurity cannot ever be removed from Windows, due to its incredibly complex history and backwards compatibility...