[rbanffy]

> "People use IIS?" is clearly a passive-aggressive dig at MS

Feels a bit snarky, but not too aggressive. Windows is not a popular choice for cloud platforms and those users seem to be overrepresented here. I can imagine someone being genuinely surprised it's used for more than serving documentation that's already on a Windows server.

That said, as I mentioned earlier, it's hard to find a use case where IIS (or Windows) is a better choice than any of the popular open source http servers and app platform runtimes.

There is a colossal corpus of .NET Framework code out there and I wouldn't be surprised it achieves the status of COBOL (but with a lot less charm) at some point in the future - where code on it is maintained ad infinitum even though almost nobody would deploy a greenfield app using it.