It is very nice to see that the Microsoft’s share in the web server market significantly increasing. Below is an image from Netcraft website.
As Netcraft reports,
"The open source Apache has been the leading web server software since the March 1996 Netcraft Web Server Survey. In November 2005, Apache was found on 71 percent of web sites, putting it more than 50 percentage points ahead of Microsoft IIS (20.2 percent). At the time, Apache’s market share advantage seemed insurmountable. But less than two years later, Microsoft has narrowed that 50 percent gap to 16.7 percent. The margin is even tighter in active sites, where Apache leads Microsoft by just 12.2 percent."
You can check the complete report here.
I believe that increasing users of ASP.NET significantly contributes to this numbers. And, Silverlight, AJAX.net, et all coming in the future, the web server market for Microsoft looks very promising.
Just wanted to mention that I support IIS5, IIS5.1, IIS 6.0 and ASP, ASP.NET here in Microsoft and going to support IIS7 soon 🙂
rakkimk - the next door (so called) geek 