internet information services

"Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 RC0 hit the Web earlier this week on the road to its scheduled February 2008 release, toting a new Internet Information Services role for the product's lean and mean Server Core ...

Bruce Perens looks at Microsoft's sponsorship of Apache.

"For a decade, Microsoft was open source's worst enemy, combating it at every turn. But last week Microsoft joined the Apache open source project as a platinum sponsor, promising to put $100,000 per year into a project that beats its own IIS (Internet Information Services) in the market.

Microsoft also made some of their patents available for use in GPL software like Linux without a royalty.