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The Mollom blog included some great news for IIS users this week:

Zion Security, a Belgium-based company specializing in the security analysis of web sites and systems, has used Mollom's open API to develop a Microsoft IIS module utilizing Mollom to detect and prevent comment and posting spam.

This module is unique in that it is a HTTP module coded for Microsoft IIS, comparable to an Apache module, and allows Mollom to potentially expand to a number of ASP/IIS based systems.

How Microsoft Made PHP Suck Less on Windows
Good backgrounder on what's happening with IIS & PhP. Esther Schindler of IT World discusses her conversation at OSCON with Microsoft's Garrett Serack of the Open Source Technology Center team, and reviews the history behind MS's interest in improving PhP application performance and stability on IIS.