PHP officially into IIS Microsoft and Zend work together to promote the development of PHP language

Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, has recently reached a long-term partnership with Zend, the Open-source application development tool provider.

According to the Techwhack website, Microsoft's chief technology strategist Bill Hilf said in a statement that cooperation between the two sides will ensure that PHP applications are compatible with previous and future versions of Microsoft Web server software.

Remarkably, this collaboration will involve support for Windows Server 2003 and its future version of Longhorn.

Zend Co-founder and chief technology officer Andi Gutmans said in a statement that "PHP has been able to run on windows before, and the problem is that it has not been doing very well." ”

Today, more than 22 million of the world's web sites and 15,000 companies are using the PHP language, which is netcraft as the Internet's most popular development language.

Zend and Microsoft's technical improvements will be available to developers in the PHP language in the first quarter of 2007 to develop better software applications.