It looks like Microsoft have been rejiggling some of their web infrastructure — presumably preparations for defence against tomorrow's scheduled attack from the Blaster worm — utilising Akamai web caching services a bit more than usual. This has led to a seemingly huge volte face for Microsoft ... IIS running on Linux?

[netcraft screen grab]

... Netcraft are obviously sniffing the TCP stack of the Akamai servers (www.microsoft.com is currently resolving to an Akamai farm address), but it still looks amusing! Hat tip to riddell :)

Further [2003-08-15 20:25] — hee hee, I had to add this quote in from elwell ...

[20:24] <Elwell> seen the front headline on microsoft.com?
  "3 ways to help you avoid a virus attack" - doesn't mention
  change your hosting company to one that uses a
  linux loadbalancer