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you see, there's some history here -- back in the gates/ballmar days of microsoft, they focused on making products for windows, as that was a cash cow. MS developed the original .net platform that ran on windows, made visual studio (the cadillac of dev environments), and expanded asp.net to host websites on windows servers.
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