Sitting here in the opening keynote of the PHP/Zend conference and Microsoft announces that FastCGI for IIS will be included in Zend Core. More information can be found at iis.net/php. Also, Zend will be supporting windows server 2008 including the “Server Core” option. But that’s not all… They also announced that Zend framework will support information Card-based athentication for php-applications. This will enable easy and quick authentication for users on you php applications/websites.

Finally Microsoft announced that they are releasing a technology preview of SQL serever 2005 driver for PHP.