What kind of Software used by Microsoft Corporation??

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Definitely not Apple :P...

I guess you wanna know on the platform on which MS works. I believe its ".net" .
 
Yup, some folks even "dogfood" their beta software which may not be available externally except for "TAP" customers (Technology Adoption Partners/programme) as far as I recall... see: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dogfood

there is an interesting story to the term "dogfood" if anyone can post it here :)
 
Thanks...also i want to know what kind of database software they are used??? For storing there massive amount of data??
 
yep, sql server and that too they try to dogfood beta versions in production environments when they can!

btw, i'd heard that the term "to dogfood your software" came about from a story about a dog food salesman, who when asked about the quality if the product he was selling, actually ate it to show it was safe/good... :D
 
What kind of applications do they use? Do they use excel or do they use ms word?

All these questions, they hurt my little brain!!
 
^ thats right. i had read about the akamai CDN thing but forgot/was unable to post immediately for mrintech's benefit :)

even the apps they use are their own (whatever is available), so yes, word, excel too. for stuff like employee time/labor tracking they use(d) a thirdparty tool but were planning to build something in-house (not sure of current status).

for intranet apps like HRweb and other internal websites they used to do ASP.NET and all but now they are heavily into "MOSS" (ms office sharepoint services) and their "SharePoint" product (last i know) which was supposed to get all fancy wiki/cms type features - dont know the latest status though...

some occasions they dont use their consumer apps rather in-house tools built with the underlying components, for example, by reading blogs i understand the devs use some sort of custom tool which uses the visual studio underlying compilers but not the visual studio UI itself...

i wonder what happened to apps like InfoPath - it was supposed to be the next best thing since sliced bread.
 
akamai is used to prevent DOS attacks. They route requests to MS web servers. akamai is used by many people for Distributed DNS.

They very much use Windows Servers, SQL servers, Exchange and SharePoint and Office 2010beta..
 
Ah, yes, they also use the latest beta Exchange for their corporate email for new features and "push email" (blackberry's) and what not...

For hardware they seem to have a close relationship with HP, pretty much all their machines are from them. Can anyone comment about if its at least partially true for all their offices in India and abroad?

Lots of regular employee discounts and offers from HP for MS employees happen. (or used to)
 
I will just repeat what other members have said before me, MS uses Akamai as its delivery agent and akamai uses Linux. For applications they use the office apps and some of the early releases much before beta even.

Microsoft.com runs on Win Server 2008, but the truth is that they have tried using linux too as they wanted to calculate the costs and the advantages or disadvantages of using it on their intranet and websites but that was for a test only.

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