Does Apple use Microsoft .NET on their website?

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7 points·nreece··4 comments

I don't understand why people care about this sort of thing. Frameworks are just tools, and sometimes the most expedient tool for some particular job might not be the flagship toolchain for the technology company in question. The handling of promotions on the Apple site might be outsourced to another company which might just happen to use .NET, for example. If some small part of apple.com runs on .NET, that doesn't seem like an earth-shattering revelation to me (apple.com itself is running Apache 1.x + mod_perl on Darwin, it seems).

The odd machine at the microsoft.com domain is probably running Apache on Unix, and similarly for various servers at other technology companies. The web framework/OS is just a tool -- get over it.

Frank Soltis used to gloat that Microsoft ran on as/400. They supposedly even tried to port to NT, but failed miserably and had to roll back. http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc/.5bfa7907

I totally agree with what you're saying. However, this is sort of surprising because the ceo is so outspoken about how msft products are such crap and are 2nd rate rip-offs.

It's also funny because of the general Apple snobbery towards all things non-apple. Which also made me chuckle because I fall into that category with my MacBook pro, ipods, iphone, and graveyard of old Apple products. =]

That's definitely an asp.net error. What is even more mind blowing is the fact that Apple deployed this with debug output turned on.

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