Windows 2000 passes 1 million IP addresses
ENT News | at | by Mike
Web researchers at Netcraft Ltd. say Windows 2000 crossed the threshold of 1 million IP addresses in March. Together with Windows NT 4.0 and Windows Server 2003, there are slightly over 1.5 million IP addresses running Microsoft operating systems, according to Netcraft. Each month, Netcraft performs a survey of sites on the Web. Windows 2000/IIS 5.0 are up from less than 700,000 IP addresses in February 2002, according to a chart on the Netcraft site.
Normally, the U.K.-based outfit reports an operating system's or Web server's presence by the number of sites, of which Windows 2000 now has about 9 million. The 10.75 million total Microsoft-based sites Netcraft found across the Web in March 2003 made up about 27 percent of all sites. The open source Apache Web server still dominates, with 63 percent, or nearly 24.5 million sites.