Microsoft continues to offer the olive branch to the open source community with its recent announcement to work with Zend to make PHP run faster on IIS and Windows, which should effectively erase a major Apache Web server performance advantage:
http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193500750
This is great news for the whole Internet.
Cheers,
Port80
PS: httpZip 3.7 is coming soon with kernel mode caching support, Ajax features, and PDF compression… Now that will make for even faster PHP (and whatever you got) sites and apps on IIS!