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As there are a lot of hoohaa's recently on many users downgrading Vista back to XP due to a myriad of reasons. It seems Microsoft itself is doing the same on its own servers.

On Dec 15 the server was still running Windows Server 2008, but the next day it was seen running Windows Server 2003. Interesting!

Before we jump to conclusion, there are a few reasons why this could happen.

First reason could be there are a lot of servers behind the IP address (so called the server farm), and the servers are running a mix of Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and some 'unknown' OSes (it will be very entertaining if it were Linux...).

Or, is this plain negligence of the site administrators?

Or, the servers were just being downgraded to a better and stable old platform?

You decide.