Debugging Microsoft.com 511
teslatug writes "Channel 9 has an interesting video interview with Chris St.Amand and Jeff Stucky who test and debug Microsoft.com. They reveal some of the big problems they used to face such as recycling processes every 5 minutes due to memory leaks and 32 bit limitations, and being unable to push more than 10 Mbits of data to their datacenters due to Windows' networking stack limitations."
What the... (Score:5, Funny)
How the hell am I supposed to watch that?
Re:What the... (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe if you gave us some particuars, we could help.
404 error for this story (Score:2, Funny)
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Sounds like a lot of crap... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, right...
Hmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
Suprised? (Score:3, Funny)
The Desk (Score:2, Funny)
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Ironic? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What the... (Score:5, Funny)
> How the hell am I supposed to watch that?
Well, if you're not running Windows, how the hell else are you supposed to get memory leaks? They don't just grow on B-Trees, y'know!
Re:Ironic? (Score:5, Funny)
No.
Re:Missing info... (Score:1, Funny)
Life is incomplete.
Video transcribed below: (Score:5, Funny)
Chris St.Amand "What up bro"
Interviewer: "So like what happened when you worked on microsoft.com? Oh but first...Did you get all the chicks at the bars when you mentioned your job or what?"
Chris St.Amand "Oh totally. I'd just say, 'what up babe. I work on the microsoft.com web portal' and she'd degfrag my harddrive all night."
Interviewer: "Sweet. So what was your biggest hurrdle writing all that HTML? After all that's a complicated langaguage to master."
Chris St.Amand "It'd definelty have to be that F'ing page not found shit. You don't know how many times I'd go to microsoft.com after doing a big update and it'd just say four-oh something and the page just wouldn't show up. You know we tried to put up a 420 page not found but got in trouble with our boss."
Interviewer: "Yea totally! That would have been cool. Oh ummm let's see here. So what other problems did you have?"
Chris St.Amand: "Not being able to use FreeBSD to serve that shit. When I first heard I actually had to use Microsoft I was completely like, 'Not cool Bill. Not F'ing cool, Bill.'
Interviewer: "Any thing else? Like was it hard to get up every day in the morning knowing that your existence was updating microsoft.com HTML?"
Chris St.Amand: "Yea I tried sucicide a number of times. But then I discovered that I could just completely make up new HTML tags and that was a lot of fun."
Interviewer: "Make up HTML?"
Chris St.Amand: "Oh yea, we're microsoft. When I first started they told me that no other browsers exist other then that big blue F'ing E and that no other operating systems exist. And that I could do whatever I wanted to do. So I just started making up *ALL KINDS* of crazy ass HTML.
Interviewer: "Cool dude. You rock. Anything else you want to mention?"
Chris St.Amand: "Yea you know all that crazy F'ed up HTML that all of our products output? You know without indention and messed up question marks everywhere? That was me. I was all hung over the day I added that. And that's about it."
Interviewer: Thanks Chris, I'm sure you'll go down in infamancy for such a piece of F'ing shit web page and end up in some lame ass 'Don't write web pages like this' hall of fame.
Chris St.Amand: "Peace out and remeber to eat your greens not smoke 'em!"
Re:Recycling processes is normal for windows (Score:1, Funny)
Err ... (Score:5, Funny)
Yup, thought so. I suck.
That's it... (Score:3, Funny)
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Oh, now I get it! (Score:5, Funny)
Don't answer that.
Re:Oh, now I get it! (Score:3, Funny)
I guess $40 Billion is good for something!
Re:What the... (Score:3, Funny)
I understand. They might get grotesque quantities of Unfreedom all over your compiler. Who wants that to happen? :-/
Obligatory security comment... (Score:4, Funny)
"So is your security getting better?..."
Aside, its funny to hear them concede that they're actually having to adjust for other browsers visiting their home page.
"Use standard-compliant code? Heresy!..."
It's fascinating... (Score:5, Funny)
How times change...
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I thought (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry i though everyones problems went away when they switched to winme?
Sorry i though everyones problems went away when they switched to win98
Sorry i though everyones problems went away when they switched to win95.
all i seem to hear before a new windows release is how xxxx is stable now xxxx starts up in only 4 seconds xxxx doesnt have this problem xxxx doesnt have that problem.
Windows has had commercial server software for how long ?
and its just fixing a stack limitation when ?
Re:An example of the advantages of the new windows (Score:5, Funny)
IIS has a cool feature (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What the... (Score:5, Funny)
You are complaining that a Video about Microsoft.com, featuring Microsoft employees, created by Microsoft is released in Microsoft's favorite media format which plays natively in Microsoft Windows Media Player.
Umm yeah, okay, it's really a secret ploy to give you linux nuts another reason to re-compile your kernel with evil capitalist codecs in it (or some other bullshit rant).
Re:Not just Windows stack limitations (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft S-s-s-security (Score:5, Funny)