>Can you tell me how Microsoft will make more revenue with EF rather than LinqToSQL?
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>In this case, it has nothing to do with revenue, but two different teams developing the technology in parallel and one team winning.
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Give them six months and there will be at least 1 'new' 'beta' technology to do the same thing, and Microsoft will shift focus away from at least one of these. Time for more training, new tools, and more conferences.

>>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.