In another cool piece of developer news, Windows IIS 7.0 is supposed to support PHP or at least make PHP easier to work with on IIS 7.0. I have toyed with PHP on IIS 6.0, it will run but most webhosts will not support any issues that should arise when developing web applications.

Here is a great set of articles from IIS.net that covers IIS 7.0 new features in detail and offers an IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0 Migration guide

Microsoft has released an update to the Windows Live suite. My favorite IM tool has always been Messenger because it is easy to set up and use immediately. I recommend it to family in particular for remote troubleshooting purposes.

The new installation was simple and offered the ability to load specific integration opportunities such as mail, photos etc…I loaded the mail and photo sharing tool to see how it holds up to other solutions from Google and Yahoo.  More to follow.