Recently I came across a site and found that Microsoft focuses on open source developers to give more access on their platform. What Microsoft saying is "We are working to give open source developers more access to our platforms".
Multinational technology firm Microsoft India today announced the launch of a new set of developer tools and software development kits for PHP developers building applications for Windows Azure.
The Windows Azure platform allows developers to use multiples languages (PHP, Ruby, Python,.Net or Java) and provides development tools to build applications which run on any of the Windows Azure platforms or other cloud platforms.
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