| When we set out to build IIS7 back in 2003, once IIS6 and Windows Server 2003 were released, we knew we had to think “big.” Not “big” in the typical version 7 way, where the product gets bloated and overengineered—in fact, quite the opposite.We knew that it was time for IIS to undertake some dramatic changes, from modularizing the core Web server to replacing the metabase with a modern configuration system and replacing the outdated administration tool.We wanted to do all that engineering on top of all public APIs so that anyone could build new or replacement features as quickly, as powerfully, and as capably as the product team could. |
