Microsoft Partners With Zend

jesse.castro writes to point out news of Microsoft striking a multi-year partnership with PHP provider Zend to improve PHP's performance on Windows-based Web servers. From the article: "Rather than marking a sudden change of course, Microsoft is openly engaging in a dialogue with Zend, a key open source promoter, and millions of PHP developers, analysts said."

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Seems that

[hairypalmer]

Jani was right, Zend are part of the zionist conspiracy.

On a more serious note, nothing good will come of this!

yup, php is JUST LIKE visual basic

[rubycodez]

poorly designed, not powerful, and encouraging bad coding practices.

Re:Hooray for Microsoft Zend 2007, Ultimate Editio

[trezor]

Suuuuuuuuure. I'm absolutely certain Microsoft will kick out the technologically superior ASP.NET in favour of PHP which has stood exactly where it started ever since it's conception. Absolutely sure!

That was sarcasm, btw. Microsoft already did their own PHP, it was called "ASP" and was just as shitty as PHP was back then and is today. Maybe even a few tads worse. As a developer in MS-land, I say "Thank god they moved forward and ditched that POS". So just relax. I don't think they're going back there again. Your PHP will probably be safe.