[nradov]

Actually they got a huge benefit. They had internal users doing a high-volume stress test on Windows and associated middleware, so a lot of bugs got found and fixed. The products now are noticeably more reliable.

[bayareaguy]

I was only thinking about whether or not their actions improved Hotmail.

To learn how to make a Windows web service work, they buy a FreeBSD based one and then spend 5 years replacing FreeBSD with Windows.

What an expensive way to do QA.