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Microsoft Launches Free Web Software Eco-System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-i'm-sure-it-will-be-bug-and-bloat-free dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft, inspired perhaps by the ease of selecting and installing iPhone apps, has taken a similar approach to gather back market share of its IIS web server in a predominantly Apache/PHP market. 10 open source CMS, gallery, wiki, and blog tools were chosen to populate the eco-system, dubbed Web App Gallery. Developers must agree to principles and can now submit their PHP or .NET application for inclusion. Once an application is in the gallery, Windows users use Microsoft Web Platform Installer, released in a keynote at MIX this week, which inspects the the local system, and installs and configures dependencies like the IIS webserver, PHP, URL re-writers, and file permissions. Screenshots show this to be quite easy for the typical computer user. This could provide some real competition for WAMP and Linux shell install processes."

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  1. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it run Linux?

  2. Re:Microsoft and what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not every day you see "Microsoft" and "Free" in the same headline.

    Nonsense

  3. Re:Microsoft and what? by Andr+T. · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not every day you see "Microsoft" and "Free" in the same headline.

    Search for 'Microsoft' in google. One of the top results will be "Microsoft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"

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  4. Big deal. by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Microsoft, inspired[1] perhaps by the ease of selecting and installing iPhone apps, has taken a similar approach to gather back market share of its IIS web server in a predominantly Apache/PHP market. 10 open source[2] CMS, gallery, wiki, and blog tools were chosen to populate the eco-system, dubbed Web App Gallery.

    [1] I think submitter mis-spelled "feeling threatened".

    [2] Big deal. Two open source tools? How many closed-source tools are in the "ecosystem"?

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