Case in point. How did Microsoft Address the issue. I can think of a couple other hacks that NT as an OS and MIIS as a server have not even begin to address. Case in point, it was almost 2 months before a good response by Microsoft to the syn-ack problem. I ever heard about the problem.
Ping of death is another example.
SP-II is an example of an untested release, not a fix. NT services can crash the server. Each of our NT web machines crashes aproximatly once every 45 days or so. There is no way any machine outside of Microsofts Redmon office could hold up to that type of beating. NOT a service quality high resource use, such as a web presence provider.