Even as early as 2003: <b>Although PHP is universally thought of as implying Linux, Apache and MySQL, nearly 7% of PHP sites [when counting by ip address] run

Even as early as 2003: <b>Although PHP is universally thought of as implying Linux, Apache and MySQL, nearly 7% of PHP sites [when counting by ip address] run on Windows. This has doubled over the last year</b> (from Netcraft: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/30/php_growing_surprisingly_strongly_on_windows.html http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/30/php_growing_sur... ). PHP on Windows grew much more later on, what with Microsoft even making several specific changes to IIS et all to accommodate it better.