Bill Staples is a long time web enthusiast currently working at Microsoft Corporation as the Product Unit Manager for the Internet Information Services (IIS) team. And he bloged an entry at Blogs.IIS.Net where he writes about IIS 7 running a Vista at superman speed… And this is on a desktop machine, imagine such power on a server… Whohaa…

IIS on Vista is a lot more powerful than previous releases of IIS on the Windows professional SKUs. It is much less restrictive and can now be used a as a fully capable Web server. For the first time, it’s also available on Home SKUs of Windows as well, which will hopefully make it great for those still in school or hobbyists at home. The lack of these annoying roadblocks made my experience using IIS7/Vista so much fun this weekend, and I’m sure you’ll experience the same result. Check back soon for the other reasons I fell in love with IIS7 on Vista.

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Recently Port80 released the conclusions of their survey and….. IIS is taking the lead as a hosting platform for the Fortune 1000 Web Sites. And what to think when IIS 7.0 is released .

Overall, IIS 4, 5, and 6 deployments continue to lead with a combined 54.9% share of all Fortune 1000 corporate sites versus Apache™ 23.3% share.

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After almost two months of blog/radio silence, david resurfaced again. He left the IIS team but is started blogging at a different location.

I am very happy David is back sharing his knowledge and helping people who use IIS.

My favorite browser released their second edition. Looks cool and feels great. Good job and here is the (en-us) download link.