Microsoft will no longer build new releases of PHP for Windows. What does the Windows Web application development future look like? PHP may have been around for a while, but it’s still an important ...

PHP has traditionally been considered a programming platform for Apache web servers. Part of the reason for this is that PHP performance on Apache has historically been better than on Windows servers.

Microsoft says it will no longer contribute Windows builds of the popular PHP scripting language from PHP version 8.0 and onwards. Microsoft engineer Dale Hirt announced last week that as of PHP ...