Chris St.Amand and Jeff Stucky - Debugging Microsoft.com

At around the 34min mark you mention how newspaper sites let you view old newspapers and if it's possible to view old versions of the Microsoft website.  This is apples and oranges, BUT you can view old revisions of Microsoft.com (all the way back to 1996).

The archive of old MS is at:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://microsoft.com

They don't go to the very beginning but you can view the original MS design (infamously known as the Death Star design) from 1994 at:
http://www.useit.com/papers/1994_web_usability_report.html

DevilsRejection wrote:

I really want to feel this new networking stack, the performance, everything.

While I haven't seen any preliminary benchmarks chances are the benefits pay off for high performance servers, I'm sure it has only a small increase for standard servers.

IOW unless you're server is pushing hundreds of transactions (ex: web hits) at the same time, you'll probably never notice the improvement.

The real benefit I'm sure relates to multiple small transactions, not a couple large transactions.  Often the bottleneck in computers is not throughput, but in the starting and stopping process.

But honestly I'm still excited because it will put to rest the whole argument that compare Linux & BSD to Windows when it comes to transactions per second, especially in the web world.

Finally, I'm sure you'll need a 64bit platform to even get the full benefit.