Some of the differences you may encounter when developing with PHP on Win/IIS vs Linux / Apache.
The most obvious difference between WIMP and LAMP is definitely performance.
For years there has been an obvious performance advantage of LAMP over WIMP.
Only recently is their even a chance of closing that gap.
There are currently 2 projects underway that may help.
Currently available is IIS7 which is reported to have had PHP performance
enhancements built in with collaboration from the ZEND team.
An upcoming projects involves Microsoft engineers working with PHP engineers to get the next version of PHP (PHP5.3 which is not yet available at this time) to perform much better in IIS. This will no doubt make some progress toward WIMP catching up with LAMP in performance.