>What may be better under specific circumstances has nothing to do with what Microsoft is pushing people to use.
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Microsoft needs to keep shifting developer focus to new technologies in order to keep the revenue stream. Whether the new technologies are a step forward or backward is apparently irrelevant.

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>>I read yesterday a slightly different opinion (unfortunately, in Russian) here Denis Reznik explains what may be better to use
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>>The last blog in his post is graphical comparison results (in English).