this great story just arrived my inbox:

"...we’re extremely proud to announce that the www.microsoft.com site is running 100% on our next generation web platform!!"

For those of you curious about the scale and availability of www.microsoft.com:

- Availability YTD – 99.83% (Measured by Keynote Systems, Inc.)

- 0% Impact to Availability during upgrade to Beta 3

- 99%+ of hosted App’s upgraded without any change required

- Audience Reach - #4 in U.S (65M UU) & #5 worldwide (287M UU)

- Hosting Model  –2 Internet Data Centers &  80 Web Servers

- 500+ Vroots, 350+ IIS Web Applications & 12 Application Pools

- 10,000 Requests/Sec & 300,000 Concurrent Connections