As you learned in Chapter 3, Internet Information Server (IIS) is Microsoft’s Web server software. Microsoft supplies IIS with the versions of its Windows server operating systems that are suitable for use in operating electronic commerce Web sites.
In August 2001, Microsoft faced an uncomfortable situation that many U.S. manufacturing companies have experienced with recalled, defective products. Microsoft executives stood by at a news conference while a U.S. government official announced to reporters that there was a serious flaw in a Microsoft product. The director of the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center was warning reporters that the Cods Red worm, which was spreading through the Internet for the third time in as many weeks, was a serious threat to the continued operation of the Internet.