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Lammy 6 hours ago

Everything old is new again.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-moving-hotmail-to-win2000-s...

https://jimbojones.livejournal.com/23143.html

codethief 5 hours ago | parent [-]

From the second link:

> In 2002, the amusement continued when a network security outfit discovered an internal document server wide open to the public internet in Microsoft's supposedly "private" network, and found, among other things, a whitepaper[0] written by the hotmail migration team explaining why unix is superior to windows.

Hahaha, that whitepaper is pure gold!

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20040401182755/http://www.securi...

hotsauceror 13 minutes ago | parent [-]

And 25 years later, a significant portion of the issues in that whitepaper remain unresolved. They were still shitting on people like Jeffrey Snover who were making attempts to provide more scalable management technologies. Such a clown show.