> > both machines online for several months. The question is ... why?
>
> Possibly to provide controls for uptime / availability studies of NT.
There are also several machines running Apache out there in microsoft.com,
Apache/IIS tests are my guess...
But check out this one, and be sure to read the last three words on the
page: <http://egg.microsoft.com/~josh/public_html/bio.html>