Windows and PHP
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.