Microsoft to End Support of PHP on Windows

by kiyanwang • 6 years ago

10 3 6 years ago

When they started this "support" I got worried for a while as I thought of a new strategy where MS uses their wallets to make Windows a first class citizen for a myriad of OSS software, possibly at the cost of FLOSS platforms. They did this for several runtimes ( e.g. openjdk, incredibly enough).

Now comes this which makes me realize they were not serious after all, and rather having a bit of Google syndrome. I am relieved...

Mojah• 6 years ago

I hope everyone reads the post and not just the subject, which is misleading.

The tl;dr is: Microsoft will stop building the .exe's themselves, but PHP will still happily run on Windows. The community will most likely step in and build those binaries themselves.

For the common user, nothing much will likely change. They'll still be able to download the binaries straight of php.net, someone else will just have built them instead of Microsoft.

Isinlor• 6 years ago

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23788602

Microsoft to End Support of PHP on Windows

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