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eli on July 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft changes skype supernodes architecture to...

Do their engineers managed to convince the company that Windows is ill-suited to the task?

They acquired skype. So the question would be, Is it worth rewriting a ton of working code just so we can say it runs on our platform.

I'm pretty sure Hotmail ran Linux or BSD for quite a while after Microsoft bought them (though probably not any more)

mrb on July 17, 2012 | [–]

But no code needed to be rewritten. Skype supernodes were working on Windows before (on Windows machines in the P2P network.) Microsoft effectively stopped supporting Windows!

rbanffy on July 17, 2012 | [–]

IIRC, there was a failed attempt to move it to Windows NT 4.

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