Microsoft has released the Microsoft Web Platform which is an interoperable Platform that combines a rich and powerful web application framework with a supporting cast of tools, servers, and technologies including a complete eco-system of products, technologies, communities, and partners.
Make Web, Not War.
With this title, Microsoft presented the release of Microsoft Web Platform. It has now optimized Windows Server to support PHP applications through a new component: FastCGI. FastCGI works as an interface between PHP engine and IIS, and it ensures that PHP runs much faster than with CGI and way more reliable than PHP ISAPI. It also allows users to download PHP and even install a bunch of PHP applications, such as Drupal and phpBB. Finally, Microsoft has started identifying PHP as a viable alternative to .Net. Trully, Meet the Happy Family. For more on this platform, visit http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform.
Undoubtedly, PHP is the most pervasive Web development language in the world, spanning tens of millions of Web sites and millions of developers. Not just small to medium scale applications but PHP has enabled large scale, high quality sites like Facebook and Wikipedia to deliver critical and enormously-loaded applications.
