Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! good for PHP?

Tonny Bibbs has some questions regarding this deal. How does this going to affect PHP?

There are some news long time ago regarding “Zend and Microsoft partnered over a year and a half ago to improve native support for PHP under Windows and IIS”.

Maybe this is a good thing for PHP? Maybe there will be zero impact? What about technologies at Yahoo!?

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Letters a, b, c & d

Some emails arrived in my Yahoo! Account are funny and real…

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ & ‘d’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter ‘d’ comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter ‘a’ comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter ‘b’ comes for the first time in Billion)

And

Letter ‘c’ does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English Counting

Yahoo! Shortcuts Plugin

Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin for Wordpress is cool. It makes posts rich with Yahoo! Maps, Flickr, finds relevant content and more.

Web proxy for cross-domain AJAX Calls

Writing client web applications that use XMLHttpRequest (also known as the XMLHTTP object in Internet Explorer) object can be tricky given restrictions imposed by web browsers on network connections across domains. This article on Yahoo Developer Network describes the issue in simple, easy to understand language and provides couple of possible solutions. More on Yahoo Dev Network