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Summary: In several categories or criteria Microsoft is no longer even listed by Netcraft; the share has become rather minuscule during the pandemic, which convinced more companies to explore expense-cutting moves

THE (almost) one-hour video above discusses the latest Web server report, which was released some hours ago. "Microsoft’s server software market share remains in decline," it says, "Microsoft’s figures took a significant drop in 2020 in favour of OpenResty, and Microsoft now only has 6.5% (-1.0pp) of the site market and 6.0% (-0.3pp) of domains as of February 2021. OpenResty also looks set to overtake Microsoft as the third largest vendor in terms of sites and active sites."

"Microsoft can see the writings on the wall, so it's misreporting numbers and laying off Azure staff (quietly)."When looking at the measures that truly matter and are difficult to game (e.g. top one million sites) Microsoft is somewhere near 5% if not less. It's a huge decline compared to one decade ago. As we keep arguing each time we bring this up, it's only a matter of time before Microsoft abandons IIS for purely financial reasons. Then, migrations away from Microsoft will follow. Microsoft can see the writings on the wall, so it's misreporting numbers and laying off Azure staff (quietly). After more than half a decade with billions spent on advertising it's going almost nowhere, regardless of the number of acquisitions, incentives, and takeovers of institution (such as the Linux Foundation). ⬆