Post #1199483
2026-03-16 11:12 UTC
Replies (11)
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@FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 2026-03-16 11:34
I think some still use it for game servers
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@Zangoose@lemmy.world 2026-03-16 11:51
My company uses it for some of our legacy on-prem hosting, but a lot of that is being actively decommissioned.
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@morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2026-03-16 11:51
Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of it for two things. First being sqlserver, though that’s been able to run on linux for a long time now, there’s a bunch of features not supported but not a deal breaker for a lot of people, I haven’t encountered ssis or ssas in years for example. Second being Internet Information Services (IIS), which some people really seem to like. Wouldn’t be surprised if active directory required a windows machine either, definitely a bunch of cases I’m not considering or aware of but I’m no sysadmin.
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@Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2026-03-16 12:28
Yes, and it’s terrible.
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@Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-16 12:38
Every single business running Windows computers (which is about all of them) will have an Active Directory running on Windows. Every company I worked for only ever had a handful of Linux servers and the majority of Windows servers. Microsoft revenue generated $26.7 billion in one quarter from its Licensing, and even though a lot of it was through cloud, a lot of it also came through self hosted Windows servers. You live in a bubble if you think nobody is using Windows server.
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@titanicx@lemmy.zip 2026-03-16 14:03
Is this a real question? It’s very obvious you don’t work in IT.
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@pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-16 14:56
Yeah my company only has Windows servers, I’m sure other small and mid sized businesses are the same
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@qaz@lemmy.world 2026-03-16 16:50
Yes, we basically only use Windows servers at our company (except some people in our team)
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@Dlayknee@lemmy.world 2026-03-16 18:40
IIS. So so so much IIS.
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@Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-17 13:25
Pretty much any company that has their own IT team but is not an IT company, is most likely using Windows infrastructure.
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@bitchkat@lemmy.world 2026-03-17 14:51
At my previous job, all developers were given desktops running windows server. It was horrible but I spent 95% of my time in a Linux vm so I got by while I was there.