Microsoft changes skype supernodes architecture to support wiretapping
<i>"Microsoft has replaced P2P Skype supernodes with thousands of Linux boxes"</i>
from <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft/" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...</a><p>Wow. Does it make it the first, large scale, internal(¹) deployment of non-Windows infrastructure by Microsoft? The question is: why? Do their engineers managed to convince the company that Windows is ill-suited to the task? I am quite stupefied.<p>(¹) "Internal" as opposed to situations where Microsoft inherited non-Windows infrastructure from external acquisitions, such as when they acquired Hotmail in 1997 and their 5000 FreeBSD servers (eventually migrated to Windows.)