Summary: Netcraft shows that Microsoft's decline further accelerates in the Web servers space; IIS is becoming financially unviable
THE (latest) servers' survey from Netcraft was released again yesterday. The 3 images below are all from Netcraft, but some tell the story better than others (the one above is the important one, so it has been set aside). Some comments are needed for clarify, as "active sites" is the important chart (much of the rest is too easy to manipulate for money, as Microsoft in fact did several times, e.g. the GoDaddy deal that's intended to help Microsoft give a mere illusion of big presence/magnitude). Microsoft's share a month ago was 4.08% and now it's 3.89%. That's steep decline. In just a few weeks.
Other notable changes this month include an 8.10% reduction in the number of domains powered by Microsoft web servers, which fell by 1.73 million to 19.6 million. Much of this was caused by the continuation of parked GoDaddy domains migrating from GoDaddy's own hosting infrastructure to OpenResty servers in Google Cloud, resulting in the number of OpenResty-powered domains rising by 1.92 million to 36.4 million. The only market in which Microsoft increased its share was within the top million websites, where it gained 319 additional sites to reach a share of 7.20%.
"...the way things are going, IIS might be discontinued some time in the not-so-distant future."We don't want to spend too much time debating the cause of this; instead, let's just say that -- as we've been saying for months -- the way things are going, IIS might be discontinued some time in the not-so-distant future.
Microsoft is steadily declining and it has no strategy for reversing this trend. From a purely financial perspective, it'll only be a matter of when -- not if -- Microsoft gives up. ⬆