Despite EOL, Windows Server 2003 still runs 175 million websites
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Netcraft's latest headcount for websites and their servers reveals an interesting statistic: about 175 million websites, or roughly 20% of those surveyed, are still running on the unsupported Windows Server 2003. Microsoft ended extended support for the venerable operating system last month, meaning that it will recieve no further security updates.
A portion of those websites aren't being run atop IIS 6.0 (Server 2003's default web server software), but that may be of little help-any new security vulnerabilities in the ...