plumsauce - 5:15 am on Aug 7, 2007 (gmt 0)

Good grief!

I already told you that the microsoft.com site has a custom redirection capability installed, and has had it for years. The fact that it returns a 200 is entirely within that custom redirection facility.

A stock install of IIS does not do this.

Furthermore, I have custom 404's that return 200,301,302, and 500, depending on what *my* purpose is. That does not mean that IIS is broken. It is doing what I told it to do.

Therefore, I still say it is FUD.

The fact that a webmaster can completely BORK a web server, of any brand is not news. If it came time that most webmasters could do a pretty good job, now *that* would be news.

Don't hold your breath.