No it actually worked great, I used it for years and know many others who did as well, and the new IIS is even better. Comparatively Apache doesn’t even have a GUI and has more security holes, case closed.
As of 6, IIS was a decent product. As opposed to your assertion that I just like to bash Microsoft, I’ve said that before.
But earlier including PWS it was a piece of junk riddled with holes, dangerous for anyone, especially the average home user, to run. Hey, I have a great idea, let’s have the outward-facing http server run under the system account. Exploit a an IIS vulnerability and you own the whole box!