It's also interesting to note that a good chunk of Microsoft's Web content is served from Linux boxes. "Akamaighost" apparently runs on Linux.
I've been watching http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/graph?orderby=outage_time&site=www.microsoft.com Amusing points of note; there appears to be about a 4-hour outage, which I suspect is related to the switch to akamai and not the NY power situation. The graph from NY/NY has a BIG gap in it. They missed the outage (red on all the other graphs) and interpolated the graph so it's now a darker green bar.. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.microsoft.com looks like they've been having a lot of trouble keeping the servers up since May too.. I guess they're hoping akamai can take some of the load off. --- This email has been sent on 100% RECYCLED electrons!