Re: Re: Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows

On 10/07/2020 17:01, Jan Ehrhardt wrote:

I am building PHP for Windows myself, but I know from the questions I am getting that a lot of corporate customers of Microsoft are running PHP on Windows Server 2016 or 2019. They are only allowed to use the official binaries that are supplied on windows.php.net or pecl.php.net. These corporate customers surely will not be amused by dropping Microsoft's support for PHP 8.

Have you thought of uploading your binaries on php.net AFTER Microsoft has quit the php support?  Windows binaries were very useful for developing websites on windows system which is still the dominant operating system though, web developers will adapt the workload on ubuntu and Mint.  I still use Windows and I regularly  download Apache from apachelounge and php from the official website.

Besides that, SMB customers are often using Microsoft Azure for their Windows Server needs. Windows Azure will loose a lot of selling points without supported PHP binaries. A quick search on Azure marketplace revealed as well that some Azure partners will also be left in the cold: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=windows+php Are the Azure Sales people already informed about your decision?

I suspect Microsoft wants to market its own product called Blazor <https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor> -- With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.