The Microsoft guys did more than providing a CI. They cleaned up in regards to windows, whatever devs using Linux only did. Also they spent some time tuning the

The Microsoft guys did more than providing a CI. They cleaned up in regards to windows, whatever devs using Linux only did. Also they spent some time tuning the stack and continuous updates to the stack. Zend had nice marketing, but had been only one contributor under many. Far from owning PHP.