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Weekend must-read articles #2
Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical.
Happy 5th birthday Windows Vista – still number 3 OS worldwide
Microsoft Windows Vista was released into retail on January 30, 2007, and there’s not been many nice words said about it since. It suffered from being incompatible with much of existing hardware and software, problems with drivers, imposing annoying security procedures on users, and more. It seemed like everyone loved to hate poor Vista, enough to earn it a spot on the list of “ Top ten terrible tech products .” So today we can say happy fifth birthday to Windows Vista
Forecasting NGINX and IIS web server software growth in 2012
Last week we published an article declaring that NGINX had become the second most used web server software in the world, thereby overtaking Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). In that article, based on figures from Netcraft’s Web Server Survey , we looked at the data for “active sites.” NGINX had in that category pulled ahead of IIS for the first time, even though it was by a slim margin.
