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Netcraft: Microsoft closes in on Apache Web server lead

May saw an additional 9 million sites using Microsoft Web server software, increasing the company’s share of the Web by 0.37 percent. In the same period, Apache’s market share fell by 0.18 percent, despite gaining an additional 4.3 million sites. Microsoft is now just 4.1 percentage points behind Apache, which, as the most popular Web server software on the Internet, now powers about 37.6 percent of all sites.

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