Microsoft.com: a high-scale data management and transaction processing solution

  • Authors:
  • Sherri Kennamer

  • Affiliations:
  • Development Manager, Microsoft.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Microsoft.com, is the world's largest corporate website both in terms of site visitors and pages served. Overall, it is the fourth-largest website in total visitors behind America Online, Yahoo and Netscape. We offer 250,000 pages of content, viewable in all major browser versions (yes, we aggressively support Netscape), supported by three server farms internationally and featuring content updated as often as every three hours, seven days a week.