May 20, 2004 : Microsoft Launches IIS Promotion Push

📅 May 20, 2004 - Software giant Microsoft (microsoft.com) has launched a campaign designed to attract new customers to its Windows Server 2003 platform, according to research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com).

Microsoft launched TRYIIS.com (tryiis.com) last Monday, a Web site devoted to marketing the server operating system. Windows Server 2003, billed as Microsoft's most secure product ever, was launched last April.
According to Netcraft's May Web server survey, Microsoft platforms held a market share of 21.49 percent, representing an aggregate total of 10,691,683 hostnames. Of that total, 2.1 million hostnames were found to be running on Windows Server 2003, gaining 390,000 hostnames over April 2004.

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