Is this in reference to something that should be linked for those not alive or in the know at the time?

kqgnkqgn 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not sure if it was entirely true, but there are stories that after Microsoft bought Hotmail in the mid-90's, they quickly attempted to move them from FreeBSD (?) to Windows NT. But it failed miserably, and they went back to the original stack for another ~decade.

	▲	enigmo 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		the FreeBSD migration didn’t take that long - iirc this was the frontend migration to an IIS ISAPI. the Solaris bits (storage and routing tables) took far longer - and again iirc the frontend had been rewritten in C# before all the Sun hardware had been decommissioned.
	▲	jeffrallen 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes. This happened.

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pmontra 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe this from 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/aug/01/microsoft...