A few weeks ago, ImpressCMS was included in the Microsoft Web App Gallery. This is great news for the project, as it can now be downloaded and installed automatically with only a few clicks on a Windows Server.

Make Web Not War, Canada's first cross-platform web conference, was held back in May and during that conference, Marc-André explained how ImpressCMS came to be included in Microsoft Web App Gallery (also called Web PI).

A new year, and a new Packt Publishing Open Source Awards. Formerly known as the Open Source CMS Award, this 2010 edition has an enlarged number of categories. As of this year's edition, there are now also non-CMS categories that can compete.

Development on ImpressCMS is proceeding very well.

Many changes are being done during this "cleanup and refactor" release to improve compliance with the PHP5 code standards.

Next to that, also cleanups and reorganisations are done to make the code simpler, faster and easier to maintain.

While every effort is done to make sure these changes are transparent to both users and developers, not every change can be.

To give you an idea what we have planned, please join us on this webinar:

14 August 2010, 5pm00 GMT

Great news! The ImpressCMS project is now also available on the Microsoft Web App Gallery.

Getting ImpressCMS to work on your Windows web server has never been easier or more convenient, thanks to the Web Platform Installer. This utility takes care of the configuration and the required software for your Web app, making the setup of your web app as close as possible to a one-click process.

Being accepted by Microsoft in this list of web applications places us in the company of very well-known and respected open source projects like Dotnetnuke, Umbraco, Wordpress and Drupal.