From Thurrott's WinHEC blog : The MSN Messenger server farm handles over 70 million concurrent sessions every single day. Until recently, they were using 250 32-bit servers to manage that load. When they switched to Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition running...
We use a hybrid approach for pulling the latest "good" binaries to our machines every day. A VBS bootstrapper starts the process, and one of the things it does is check the registry. Sounds reasonable, right? It was for the past few years, but now there...