Microsoft reveals IIS 7.0 web server details
The next version of Microsoft's Internet Information Services Web server (IIS7) will integrate the ASP.NET development technologies and turn many core features into optional modules.
In addition, the software's admin tool has been completely revamped, allowing more secure and complete Web-based remote administration.
Details of the upgrade are gradually emerging as Microsoft gives key industry partners access to sneak previews of IIS7, which is due to be released with the company's next major operating system -- dubbed Longhorn -- late in 2006. One of those who publicly wrote about his experience on his blog was Robert McLaws, president and chief software architect at Interscape Technologies, a .NET development firm. McLaws alleged he saw IIS7 last year at a Microsoft summit, but the company's IIS group program manager Bill Staples had only just allowed him to publicly talk about it.
