Zend & MicrosoftA Reuters article named Microsoft forges ties with open source maker Zend caught my attention. Zend is the corporation behind the extremely popular web development language PHP, we use it here religiously.

Microsoft and Zend have formed a type of partnership where Microsoft "will ensure PHP programs run on past and future versions of Microsoft Web server software." Andi Gutmans, Zend's co-founder said, "PHP has always worked on Windows. The problem is that it never performed very well." I guess Microsoft gets PHPers to move over from Unix operating systems to Windows OSs.