Over the years, PHP running on Windows and IIS has increasingly grown. The latest version of PHP for Windows includes dramatic improvements that come from a deep collaboration between the PHP Core Maintainers and Microsoft. Improvements to this latest version of PHP for Windows include: Optimized API calls (using Win32 instead of POSIX), all PHP libraries built from the source code, compiled using our latest VC9 compiler (PHP 5.2 used VC6), and loads of compatibility fixes to improve speed and stability. Visit http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform/phponwindows.aspx

And yes, PHP also runs on Windows Azure, The Microsoft cloud computing platform. Microsoft partnered with the community to build tools and SDKs to make the lives of PHP developers much easier.

http://azurephp.interoperabilitybridges.com/

Microsoft’s Ubelly.com team will be at the PHP UK conference to chat about whatever you want, dispel some myths about PHP on Windows, talk about HTML5, IE9, WebMatrix and just about anything web.

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