As mentioned by both the Zend Developer Zone and Patrick Reilly on his blog Microsoft has officially announced their release of FastCGI for their IIS 6 web server version.

The IIS Team is eager to announce the official release of Microsoft FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0 as a free download. For the first time, we are providing hosters and PHP developers full support for a stack of technology that enables reliable, scalable PHP hosting on production Internet Information Services 6.0 (IIS 6) Web servers.

Other bloggers mentioning this new release include:

• Gaetano Giunta
• Andi Gutmans
• Johnua Eichorn