Frankly, I'm irritated at them for dragging their heals on getting the PECL4Win back up and running (and the lack of updates to http://downloads.php.net/pierre/ doesn't help matters.)

Since I've moved to the camp of "You developing PHP and use Windows? Let me show you how to setup Vagrant" I've become less concerned about the state of PHP & Windows. I just won't tolerate when people say PHP dropping XP support is a good thing (which the OP wasn't saying, but some have.)