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Huh? Why are they running Windows?
by Bromskloss 10y ago
Huh? Why are they running Windows?
- e12e 10y agoI don't know about the rest of the (initial) team, but Joel was lead on Excel as I recall. If you have a group if devs that know the nt kernel, SQL server and iis very well - why would you not use the ms stack? Don't get me wrong, I prefer Linux and Free software myself - but that doesn't mean the thousands of Man years sybase and ms have spent on their stack is wasted effort.
- Joeri 10y agoBecause they thought it was the better choice for them. You cannot argue with the result. https://www.quora.com/Why-does-StackExchange-StackOverflow-uses-ASP-NET-instead-of-some-opensource-frameworks https://www.quora.com/Why-does-StackExchange-StackOverflow-u...