Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BartC Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: Programming Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:44:30 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <6a8820b3-253a-479f-93ec-f2e03efe5753@googlegroups.com> <87d1mcjc3e.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <5054239e-14a9-46f3-93c0-8a8c5ba2542b@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:44:32 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9fdc40afa3b95117a798a6abebfe115a"; logging-data="10302"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+2BRUXQj9/JJIzNgjp9UsR" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:Czj/x1RLH7uKPBmXr/FvVSGH13o= Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:6743 On 18/07/2016 16:33, Richard Heathfield wrote: > On 18/07/16 16:13, Julio Di Egidio wrote: >> Internet Information Services (IIS) has been a standard Windows >> component not only on all MS server OS's since the dawn of time, >> but also on user systems at least since Win 98 > > Interesting. I don't seem to be able to find it on any of my current > Windows systems (XP, Vista, and W7). Nor could I find it on W10 (and > yes, I did look) when a friend of mine bought a new laptop with W10 > installed. I looked in vain for IIS From the Wikipedia entry on "Internet Information Services": "...It has been an integral part of the Windows NT family since Windows NT 4.0, though it may be absent from some editions (e.g. Windows XP Home edition), and is not active by default." (I didn't read the rest of the article as it is gobbledygook to me.) -- Bartc