Foreword
IIS was almost a stealth success for Microsoft. Version 3.0 in particular, with its introduction of Active Server Pages (ASP), probably did more to put Microsoft on the Internet than any other product the company had produced at the time. The ease with which IIS could be deployed, and the ease with which developers could create ASP applications, quickly made IIS 3.0 the top commercial Web server product on the market. Literally, tens of thousands of Web servers ran IIS, and Microsoft rode that wave of success and introduced a number of successful products that built on IIS, including Exchange's Outlook Web Access, Site Server and Commerce Server, the Microsoft Commercial Internet System, and many more.
IIS 4.0 was introduced for ...
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