Cal Evans, a developer who has been in the IT industry for 26 years, made two conclusions that surprised him after extensive research on PHP running on Windows:
1 As long as it is installed correctly, PHP runs very smoothly on Windows.
Cal installed Windows Server 08 on VirtualBox and experimented. The installation method is to use Web Platform Installer to install PHP, FastCGI, URL Re-writer and WordPress. Although it does not come with MySQL, Cal is very satisfied with the running performance, especially WordPress running very well. (Related reading: