Stack Overflow (and its offshoots) was (is?) very MS-centric, but it's clearly i...

aceperry · on Feb 20, 2015

???

Why would stack overflow focus on MS when MS has their own forums and developer resources? I have to admit, I don't look for MS things on stack, but everything else I have questions about I'll look there. In fact, most searches for MS related questions are found on sites other than stack.

_di3p · on Feb 20, 2015

pconner is talking about how Stack Overflow is hosted on Windows (and maybe uses other Microsoft products, I wouldn't know).

aceperry · on Feb 21, 2015

I had no idea that "MS-centric" meant your site is hosted on Windows. Thank you for clarifying that.

IOW, WTF ???

pconner · on Feb 21, 2015

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflo...

I think there might also be a codinghorror blog post that details why they picked .net, but I'm having a hard time finding it.

_di3p · on Feb 21, 2015

> Thank you for clarifying that.

No problem, it's wrong that your comment was downvoted. Even with my upvote it's still grey.