Re: Does Microsoft use Unix/Apache in lieu of Windows for security reasons?

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:00:31 -0700

Not urban, but perhap urbane, legend.

MS contracts out some of its internet webserver presence.
What platforms are used by these contractors is a free market
choice made by those contractors.

While MS may run competitive OSs for different purposes,
as far as I know, what web services MS itself hosts in the
public and in its own private space use its own OSs.
There is no other webserver that can serve as an application
hosting platform for .Net as skillfully as MS's own, so of
course they use it - that is why they built it.

In fact, MS web server team is rather proud of the showing
IIS has made in the past couple Web Open Hack competitions,
and especially with how little was done to harden IIS6 for its
first competition, in which it was untouched.
More news and acolades:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/iis/evaluation/news/default.mspx 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Bill" <nfr@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:eM23Wh%23fEHA.3928@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I was told by an anti-Microsoft network administrator that their servers
are
> so vulnerable (including Windows 2003) to attack that even Microsoft uses
> Unix/Apache modified to appear as MS Windows for security reasons.
>
> This sounds like urben legend to me.
>
> Does anyone have the scoop on this?
>
>
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