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clearly, it matters to you since you're bringing up the question of Hotmail. Btw Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft and Microsoft began porting it to Windows ma
by credo 17y ago
clearly, it matters to you since you're bringing up the question of Hotmail.
Btw Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft and Microsoft began porting it to Windows many years ago. They never intended to keep it running on a non-windows platform.
- eli 17y agoI was just being snarky. I find it interesting to hear how other people set up the sites I use, but I don't much care so long as they work when I try to use them.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoYou make it sound as though google bought stackoverflow, that is not the case, they are merely buying branding for a set of tags on stackoverflow (something that adobe and red-gate have already done).
- credo 17y agoI'm sure no one thinks that Google bought the company. Google had a choice of multiple solutions. They chose the one that was built on .NET. Clearly, the primary reason they picked StackOverflow is because they like the solution provided by StackOverflow (and this doesn't say that Google would prefer .NET themselves, in fact, it is safe to assume that they wouldn't) My point is that this decision is just another example of how anti-msft people are wrong when they say that .NET/Windows is not a good or viable platform
- djb_hackernews 17y agoI wouldn't construe this as an endorsement of the platform. More of an endorsement of the execution.