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Microsoft Has Become Almost Extinct in Web Servers (and in Servers in General), But the Mainstream Media Rarely -- If Ever -- Talks About That

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Summary: Mainstream/mass/corporate media does not talk about it, but Microsoft is losing one of the most lucrative (and potentially profitable) markets while defrauding its shareholders

TEN years ago it still seemed like Microsoft mattered in Web servers because of an alleged back room deal with GoDaddy (among more registrars/hosts). Over the past year or so a number or major catastrophes drove away a lot of what Microsoft had left in the Web servers space and judging by some other data points, which are publicly available, GNU/Linux completely dominates this market now (UNIX also maintains some presence).



"Why does the media not cover this?"This new report from Netcraft, published around midday on a Tuesday, reveals yet more major losses for Microsoft (and gains for Free software) -- part of an ongoing trend that the so-called 'tech' press doesn't mention at all (we're failing to see any media coverage about that). To quote Netcraft:

Apache suffered the largest loss in domains and active-sites this month, dropping by 597,000 and 886,000 respectively; and was followed by Microsoft with a loss of 203,000 domains and 115,000 active sites. Meanwhile in the web-facing computers and top million busiest sites metrics, Microsoft instead had the largest losses of 21,600 computers and 3,700 of the million busiest sites, followed by Apache with a loss of 15,400 computers and 2,500 of the million busiest sites. Despite its losses in these metrics, Apache continues to power the largest number of active sites with a share of 24.8%, and top-million sites with a share of 25.2%.



Why does the media not cover this? Or, contrariwise, why does the media write about such stuff only when a partner or advertiser (such as Microsoft) pays it to? While we keep seeing all sorts of puff pieces about "clown" and vapourware (e.g. Vista 11), we don't see facts that actually matter in the so-called 'tech' media. And later the publishers wonder why they perish. In fact, they say that the media is dying, but we'd argue that the CREDIBILITY of the media is dying. Hence that media dies. In Tux Machines and Techrights we still average over 10 hits per second. Because people generally trust those sites (which became targets for corporate-led trolling, for obvious reasons).

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