MVC is a strong pattern and has proved very popular in other development communities including but not limited to Ruby on Rails. Wikipedia has a long list of MVC web frameworks . I guess Microsoft, didn't want to be left behind as more and more people migrated away from WebForms.
My guess would be that it is a proven and very suitable pattern for the web. MVC fits very well with the stateless nature of the http protocol. And many other big web frameworks for other languages use the MVC pattern.
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