Why do so few large websites run a Microsoft stack?

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Published on 2010-11-08T18:21:29Z Indexed on 2010/12/31 6:59 UTC
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Off the top of my head, I can think of a handful of large sites which utilize the Microsoft stack

Microsoft.com
Dell
MySpace
PlentyOfFish
StackOverflow
Hotmail, Bing, WindowsLive

However, based on observation, nearly all of the top 500 sites seem to be running other platforms.What are the main reasons there's so little market penetration?

Cost?
Technology Limitations?
Does Microsoft cater to corporate / intranet environments more then public websites?

I'm not looking for market share, but rather large scale adoption of the MS stack.

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