First the IIS team started pushing mySQL and now they are pushing PHP. What the hell are they thinking?
...I'm still confused bro, have chatted with Joe Stagner about this for months, so far his response is "so what". But I guess it's a good thing the IIS team is addressing some issues: http://www.iis.net/download/WinCacheForPHP
You guys can call me crazy, but I like this. I've been using Drupal for a few of my projects and lately I've been surprised at how well it runs under IIS7 with URL Rewrite. I've been checking out WinCache since before the official release and I believe it'll hopefully fix a few of the performance issues that are sometimes seen in PHP/IIS. I like it. Hope to see more of these news.
...It's all good mun, crazy is the new kool. Much as I am in the Microsoft court I have to admit we don't have any ASP.NET packages that run a site like my friend Ana's, which is Drupal: http://ana-white.com/
Drupal is what runs whitehouse.gov, so I suppose it's good enough for all of the lesser sites in the free world.
...You just proved the point at hand. To make this craziness even clearer, Firefox 4 was released with Bing being the default search engine. Yes indeed gentlemen, we live in wonderland.
Bing is included in 4 now, but Google is still the default: "Overall these changes will mean that English-language versions of Firefox 4 will display the following search services, in this order: Google (default), Yahoo!, Bing, Amazon, eBay and Wikipedia," Sullivan concluded. But what's more interesting is the gradual move by Microsoft to embrace technologies they had previously spent so much effort trying to eradicate, or at least diminish. What does that say about their confidence in their own technology? Or their confidence in the abilities of their technology to become dominant? They seem to be putting all their eggs in the IIS basket, and saying, "We don't care what you develop the sites with, just run the sites on IIS."
Well Bing and Firefox did work together and on my system FF4 did default to Bing. http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2011/03/30/bing-it-on-firefox-4.aspx
I just don't know what browser is teaming up with what search engine anymore. For all we know, we're all pawns in their game....
