An nameless reader writes "Microsoft, inspired perhaps by the ease of selecting and installing iPhone apps, has taken a similar imminence to gather back market share of its IIS web server in a predominantly Apache/PHP market. 10 open source CMS, gallery, wiki, and blog tools were chosen to populate the eco-system, dubbed Web App Gallery. Developers must agree to principles and can now submit their PHP or .NET form for inclusion. Once an form is in the gallery, Windows users use Microsoft Web scaffolding Installer, released in a keynote at MIX this week, which inspects the the local system, and installs and configures dependencies like the IIS webserver, PHP, URL re-writers, and file permissions. Screenshots show this to be quite easy for the typical micro* user. This could provide some real race for WAMP and Linux shell install processes."

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