Microsoft’s commitment to better Web experiences for everyone.
It’s a big, complex Web world out there, and no single vendor can address all of your needs. You live in a heterogeneous Web environment, so you expect your software provider to work well with others.
Microsoft is committed to offering the best possible Web experience to its customers—and that includes solutions that work for heterogeneous environments.
For example:
• Microsoft has been working closely with the PHP.NET community, making technical contributions to widely-used PHP projects, such as the ADOdb database library, to help make Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and other Microsoft products great technologies for today’s world of choice.
• Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7.0 provides an open platform for hosting ASP.NET and PHP applications from a single server, using a common set of administrative tools for management.
• The release of SQL Server Driver for PHP v1.0 makes it easier to use SQL Server as your database of choice for PHP applications. Get the source code for the driver posted from CodePlex, Microsoft’s open source project hosting site.
• Microsoft Expression Web 2.0 gives you powerful design tools and task panes to design for ASP.NET, PHP, and XML. Open and edit PHP pages directly in Expression Web 2.0 and apply the full range of standards-based design tools to PHP.
• The Windows Web Application Gallery provides streamlined ways for users to explore, discover, and install ASP.NET, PHP, and Open Source Web applications on the Windows Web Platform. It also provides a simple way for developers to offer their applications to millions of Windows users worldwide.
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The Windows Web Application Gallery provides a streamlined way for users to explore, discover, install and deploy popular Web applications on the Microsoft Web Platform.
With this release, Web developers can now submit ASP.NET and PHP applications into the Gallery for distribution to millions of Microsoft Web Platform users worldwide. The Web Platform Installer installs Microsoft Web Platform tools and technologies, and new in the new release you can install and configure community ASP.NET and PHP applications that have been made available through the Windows Web Application Gallery.
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• The Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta now includes new Platform features and IIS extensions as well as support for installing and configuring PHP v5.2.9-1 for Windows.
• The Windows Web Application Gallery contains community .NET and Open Source applications. Check out what’s available for categories such as ecommerce, content management, publishing, digital marketing and more and keep coming back to see new applications as they are added. Also be sure to explore the process and documentation for submitting an application to be included in the Windows Web Application Gallery.
Specifics about the Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta:
• Download v1 and v2 beta from: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/default.aspx.
• Web Platform Installer v2 beta installs applications from the Web Application Gallery now, along with community PHP 5.2.9-1.
• Supported on Windows Vista RTM, Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008.
• V2 beta discovers and installs applications from the Web Application Gallery.
• Installation of applications pulls through the required dependencies from the Web stack, including community PHP 5.2.9-1.
• MySQL is not installed by WebPI but can be installed manually with guidance offered on www.microsoft.com/web.
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