Bill Staples is a very interesting guy. He's passionate about IIS, extermely bright and is one of those rare managers, like Scott Gutherie - that loves to evangelize about the product AND is good at it. Those qualities don't alwasy come in the same package. I meet with him pretty regularly in what we call internally "synch" meetings where two or more people meet and discuss their mutual ongoing activities. He's is the product unit manager for IIS which means he's pretty much in charge.

Anyway, he was showing me some stuff today including a demo of his blog report posted here: http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2006/10/23/How-I-fell-in-love-with-Vista-this-weekend-_2800_or-why-you_2700_re-gonna-love-IIS7_2F00_Vista-for-Web-development_2900_.aspx

In this test, IIS 7 on Vista gets 3800 GET requests per second! Screamin. Remember this is a client OS. This is using the new native output cache. Very cool. He also discusses why IIS 7 on Vista is by far the best web server developer and testing envionment we've ever shipped. There are of course a ton of reasons, but you should read it for yourself.

-brett