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I think the major driver for it was that Joel Spolsky worked at Microsoft for a long time (among other things, he was a PM for Excel), and therefore knew the MS
by easton 6y ago
I think the major driver for it was that Joel Spolsky worked at Microsoft for a long time (among other things, he was a PM for Excel), and therefore knew the MS stack the best. For a long time, Stack Exchange ran on IIS + SQL Server, I don't know if that's true anymore.
- BossingAround 6y agoAh! That makes perfect sense. Interesting, thanks for the comment.
- randompwd 6y agoNot the case. Spolshy was not a coder. https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/122854 https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/122854 > The main reason, it was the development stack Jeff, Jarrod and Geoff knew best when they embarked on the mission. Jeff Atwood comments on linked answer also.