Spolsky had very little to do with the actual coding of it. If memory serves, it was his idea and he engaged Atwood to build it (hence the partnership). It wa

Spolsky had very little to do with the actual coding of it. If memory serves, it was his idea and he engaged Atwood to build it (hence the partnership). It was Atwood and two other developers, which I sadly cannot remember their names at the moment who did the actual programming. You are correct though, the reason Atwood picked the MS stack was that it's what he knew, and they had ties into MS itself. It was built on the original MVC framework, before the MS framework was released to the general public. If you go back to the original podcasts it talks about why they built SO the way they did at the time.