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Filed under: Asides | Tags: Microsoft (3), WordPress (115) | October 15th, 2008
Microsoft WordPress
Microsoft’s new Web Application Installer will install WordPress for you. Who woulda thunk it? You can read more on their Channel 8 blog. ¶
Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. 
erica | October 15th, 2008 @ 4:13 pm |
Interesting. I might even have to install IIS just to try this. It DOES make installing IIS with WP sound easy.. but in the real world I wonder how it works… especially with IIS and permalinks bug and having to use index.php/ in the url – sometimes –
I wonder if the IIS install has a work around for this that would install immediately since it is being configd by MS.. surely they did enough testing to understand IIS NEEDs help in that area when it concerns WP.. you cannot tell me they tested and released this and did not notice that once…
????? (Jason) | October 15th, 2008 @ 4:34 pm |
The first link doesn’t seem to go anywhere but, considering how Microsoft has been trying desperately to change their image over the last five years, this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. MS has claimed that they want to become more involved in the Open Source community, and what better way to do this than by supporting something they’re not developing?
It’s certainly much easier for the execs to approve of something like this rather than sharing source code for something as outdated as WIndows 98
Mark Wilson | October 16th, 2008 @ 1:54 pm |
They do have some open source stuff out there… like the CodePlex open source project hosting site – http://www.codeplex.com/ – and port25 – http://port25.technet.com/ .
Frederick | October 15th, 2008 @ 4:40 pm |
Whoa. You almost scared me. For a moment I thought that Microsoft had acquired WordPress/Automattic.
Chetan | October 15th, 2008 @ 7:39 pm |
Even me too, but i dont think so MATT will do such think ever.
Robert | October 16th, 2008 @ 6:45 am |
eww, such blasphemous talk will anger the gods
CrazyTaxi | October 15th, 2008 @ 7:07 pm |
I haven’t as yet read the linked article. I just wanted to point out that your headline scared the cricketsplit out of me for a minute.
Aleks | October 15th, 2008 @ 7:22 pm |
CrazyTaxi, the same thing went through my head.
Lance | October 15th, 2008 @ 8:19 pm |
No kidding, I clicked through for the acquisition information
At least this is good press for WP!
Samsul | October 15th, 2008 @ 9:28 pm |
why would I install WP in Microsoft??
Richard | October 15th, 2008 @ 9:59 pm |
It’s interesting and exciting that Wordpress gets this support. I like to see more and more users of Wordpress and developers around it.
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ChaosKaizer | October 16th, 2008 @ 4:09 am |
scary headline indeed, if this was post on April, I wont bother to click. this MS web aps installer only run on IIS 7.0 with FastCGI Modules you pretty much need to setup/compile PHP & MYSQL first before everything is ready. the ideas is like LAMPP/XAMPP but bundle with bunch of popular CMS.
tsquez | October 16th, 2008 @ 4:35 am |
yes sir who would have thought….lol I wonder what they are up to.
Goofy | October 16th, 2008 @ 4:48 am |
This is great and makes another case for WordPress as an established, viable application for those that don’t understand this already. I recently had a little tif over WP with some IT (read Microsoft) people that claimed they would have nothing to do with Wordpress because it wasn’t a “true” platform. This would put a little dent in that argument.
dev | October 16th, 2008 @ 4:50 am |
Not just Wordpress, but also Drupal, and even phpBB. This is very weird.
Aw Guo | October 16th, 2008 @ 4:59 am |
OMG, fantastic!
Microsoft is so open this time.
Blogie | October 16th, 2008 @ 5:03 am |
Tried it, but there are 7 prerequisite items that need to be manually installed in your IIS — stuff like php (d’oh), mysql, etc. The MS AI does provide download links, though.
Alex | October 16th, 2008 @ 5:22 am |
When I first say the title I thought wordpress was being taken over by MS.
Richard McLaughin | October 16th, 2008 @ 5:37 am |
When I read the headline I thought WP had been bought.
I used to work at Microsoft and although WP was never discussed as a target of acquisition, it would be the most logical thing for MS to try to do.
Boo Spinner | October 19th, 2008 @ 9:47 pm |
WOW that is too scary to even go to bed with. I wish I had waited until tomorrow and morning Joe to read that, Richard.
But thanks for the thought. It is worth getting it to keep in mind that no matter how good things get, the world can come apart in a flash of fire.
Lisa | October 16th, 2008 @ 5:38 am |
Microsoft Wordpress is pretty much the ultimate oxymoron
Dougal Campbell | October 16th, 2008 @ 7:47 am |
Even though I use Linux for my servers, AFAIK, the fastest platform for PHP apps is IIS using FastCGI. Of course, there are lots of supplemental services that aren’t available on that platform, but still — sometimes you have to give kudos where they’re due.
Disappointing to hear that this app doesn’t handle installing PHP and MySQL for you, but it still sounds interesting. Might give a *lot* of exposure to that list of Open Source apps that they might not otherwise have gotten, in some organizations.
Richard Ginn | October 16th, 2008 @ 8:26 am |
The program is in beta Dougal. It might be a feature in the final release.
One program that would install and help configure everything on a server is a great idea.
Gigacore | October 16th, 2008 @ 9:04 am |
You know what, whenever I used to open microsoft word on my xp, this word uses to come into mind “Microsoft Wordpress” haha!!
Nice stuff btw
GaryD | October 16th, 2008 @ 9:50 am |
Whats the difference between this and manually uploading a copy of wordpress to a IIS server and installing it like you would on a php server?
Mike Harding | October 16th, 2008 @ 2:53 pm |
Did anyone notice the WordPress version is only 2.2.3. I wonder what any upgrade would do?
countzeero | October 16th, 2008 @ 3:22 pm |
that´s a damn scary headline… but phew it´s only about IIS hosted WP installs. Thank God and Linux that I don´t have to deal with IIS anymore.
Illi.Pro | October 16th, 2008 @ 7:18 pm |
It’s excellent but in the requerimients says: Vista RTM, Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008. So i think that it’s not going to have much sucess
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Triple T | October 17th, 2008 @ 12:19 am |
Thanks Matt, what a psychological effort you gave me in the title. I don’t know what will it gives to me, but at least Microsoft shared it for free.
?? | October 17th, 2008 @ 5:00 am |
WP????????
wp is going more and more strong!
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fred | October 17th, 2008 @ 4:17 pm |
Whoa! The title scared the hell out of me… I thought that those lazy fatasses from Microsoft where about to get wordpress on their bag!!!
Oh! the nightmare!
Keith H | October 17th, 2008 @ 7:08 pm |
“Microsoft Wordpress” …sounds catchy to me.
Teguh Aditya | October 17th, 2008 @ 8:25 pm |
Wow i like this.
AskApache | October 18th, 2008 @ 1:28 am |
Good news, the more the better.. MS usually only hops on the ‘open-source’ tip when they see $$$…
First google update/earth/desktop-search/gears/chrome and now MS… my poor CPU!
Brent Norris | October 18th, 2008 @ 2:11 am |
puttin’ the feelers out eh, Matt? JUST KIDDING!
sheesh
Robin Lynne | October 18th, 2008 @ 2:57 am |
This means nothing to me, really, but… since I’m here anyway – WHAT a COOL layout/theme! I love it.
That’s all
Ashrith | October 18th, 2008 @ 3:57 am |
WHOA! i thought for a moment that Microsoft has bought Wordpress!
Deepanshu Goel | October 19th, 2008 @ 3:19 pm |
‘Microsoft WordPress’
yes i thought that Microsoft bought WP, and frankly that sounded too bad to speak.
Jauhari | October 19th, 2008 @ 5:48 pm |
WordPress Effect
Etienne | October 20th, 2008 @ 2:15 am |
wordpress wordpress wordpress! Gotta love it! – whew glad MS hadn’t purchased WP – breath in breath out. keep up the good work!!!
Robertfel | October 20th, 2008 @ 3:25 am |
Microsoft + Wordpres ? Hooho its a great mutually i think…Just wonder how if Microsoft go open source
JT | October 20th, 2008 @ 2:14 pm |
So installing wordpress takes like 30 secs anyway – whats the big deal. But installing PHP and MySQL on Windows takes much longer. Right pain in the jaxi last time I did, which I’m glad to say was a long time ago as I wouldn’t use that pile of crap for any server, especially not a web server. They ought to put some effort in and get the difficult to install bits working out of the box, since the WP boyz have done all the hard work already in making it so foolproof.
“AFAIK, the fastest platform for PHP apps is IIS…” what an utter crock of… More like the slowest, and certainly least stable. You can certainly have more sites and concurrent users on unix servers of equivalent spec. I’ve done my own tests, and there are plenty of stats out there which suggest the same.
By the way this theme is a cracking piece of design. Rather like Wordpress…
Andy Fitzpatrick | October 20th, 2009 @ 3:33 am |
LOL that will teach us to read before we jump in lol We’ve just spent tha last 10 mins in our office discussing if Microsoft had bought Wordpress