Everyone I know have given up using SMB long ago. Techies use SFTP, non-techies use cloud services (including those self-hosted in companies intranets as well a

Everyone I know have given up using SMB long ago. Techies use SFTP, non-techies use cloud services (including those self-hosted in companies intranets as well as Google Drive and competitors) and apps, some use WebDAV for some cases it suits Ok. And I have never seen anybody using NFS (despite it seeming quite popular according to its mentions on the web). I looked at it as it sounded interesting but gave up the Idea once I found out it does broadcats - I wanted file servers to be passive and only respond to direct requests. Regarding Microsoft - they say they are updating SMB to use QUIK for sake of eliminating the need in VPNing access to remote shares thanks to its encrypted nature (as I understood, they previously meant WebDAV to be used instead of SMB for VPNless remote file sharing). Nevertheless I doubt many people are going to find courage for exposing company file servers running Windows directly to open Internet without using a firewall and a VPN.