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by pconner 4144 days ago
Stack Overflow (and its offshoots) was (is?) very MS-centric, but it's clearly in the minority.
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aceperry 4143 days ago
???

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.

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bramgg 4143 days ago
pconner is talking about how Stack Overflow is hosted on Windows (and maybe uses other Microsoft products, I wouldn't know).
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aceperry 4142 days ago
I had no idea that "MS-centric" meant your site is hosted on Windows. Thank you for clarifying that.

IOW, WTF ???

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pconner 4142 days ago
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.

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bramgg 4142 days ago
> Thank you for clarifying that.

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

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