From InfoWorld: After almost two decades of trailing the market leader, Microsoft's Web server software is coming close to rivaling the dominance of the Apache Web server, according to the latest Netcraft survey of Internet infrastructure.
"Apache has been the most commonly used Web server for more than 18 years, but this is the closest Microsoft has ever been to threatening this position," a blog post from the English security firm stated about the survey.
The growing use of Microsoft's server software also suggests that the company's Azure cloud services continues to gain traction, given that some of the new copies of the software are running from within Azure.
The open source software from the Apache Software Foundation is beset by all sides from rivals. Netcraft also reported that the use of the Nginx high performance Web server software continues to gain traction as well, at least with the most heavily visited websites.
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