Microsoft now has a nice installer called Web installer which, on top of usual microsoft tools and applications related to Web development, let us install PHP tools and other popular tools and appilcation, including Drupal, WordPress, Joomla! etc.,  and it does not involve installation of Apache server.  All are installed under IIS.
Frankly, I am overwhelmed.   There is a lot to learn for this HTML, CCS and javaScript only Sunday web developer to grasp the whole new array of tools. It must be a good thing that I am not restricted to aps.net metaphor.