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Microsoft continues to increase its web server market share, adding 2.6 million sites this month as Apache loses 991K hostnames. As a result, Windows improves its market share by 1.4% to 34.2%, while Apache slips by 1.7% to 48.4%. Microsoft's recent gains raise the prospect that Windows may soon challenge Apache's leadership position.
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The second graph, with "Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains", looks pretty dramatic. What could explain the trend? asp.net gaining steam?
...it shocked me too. When .NET came out I kept thinking "This isn't new, they just repackaged what already existed." Which, while true, didn't matter, M$ actually did a damn good job packaging an IDE (VS) with the development technology and allowing rapid, powerful development.
as a long time follower of those surveys, i have to challenge that statement. netcraft usually makes note of changes due to a change in the server brand that domain registrars are using for parking purposes. for this month, they have made no such statement.
in any case, take a look at the third graph, for *active* domains. netcraft defines this graph as representative of non-parked domains returning a http response. apache looks like it's falling off a cliff.
it might not be .net, but it ain't domain registrars either.
