MVC has to be one of the most non-skunkworks projects in Microsoft history. Scott Guthrie (senior management) was involved from the very beginning, and there we

MVC has to be one of the most non-skunkworks projects in Microsoft history. Scott Guthrie (senior management) was involved from the very beginning, and there were frequent preview and beta releases through the entire development cycle. Couldn't have been more open, both inside and outside of Microsoft. Maybe there's another meaning of skunkworks I'm not aware of? Also, FWIW, a lot of Microsoft's biggest public facing sites run on ASP.NET MVC now, so even if you assumed a lot of stupidity or evilness, there's a lot of inertia behind ASP.NET MVC.