Microsoft supporting Open Source? Yes its true see this article, but there is one thing that you will notice here is that MS knows that 80% of PHP programmer are doing their development on a Windows and deploying it in linux. I wanted to point out that yes we do this but our development server is still linux.

So why linux instead of windows as deployment platform? There are many reasons but here are mine:
* Software are considered part of the system after you install them so you can combine all software and make one ultimate software for your site
* Cron or automatic job in in linux is a lot simpler
* Windows file structure is so hard to get around using command prompt, look at your keyboard where is / and \.
* Windows command prompt doesn’t feel right meaning MS created them to be GUI and why the heck would you still use command line when you have a GUI

And the ultimate reason and also the reason why linux is not mainstream.
Most of the software for servers are created for linux not microsoft, and vice versa most of the software for desktop are created for microsoft not linux. So if the Linux feels that it’s so hard to get the mainstream desktop, MS will feel the same on servers no matter what or who MS is coz if you will be saying MS is MS, then why linux still lead this market after all this years.