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Computerworld[^]:

Microsoft has quietly ended retail sales of Windows 7, according to a notice on its website.

Make Use Of[^]:

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MSDN Blogs[^]:

This release focuses on addressing feedback from the community around quality and stability. In this release, we've fixed over 100 issues related to memory leaks, CPU usage, crashes, and compiler correctness. This has helped the TypeScript experience for developing large-scale JavaScript applications become a more robust and more reliable experience.

Jonathan Allen wrote:

Try to Leave Silverlight and Flash Soon

While even old .NET staples like WinForms and Web Forms have found a place, RIA containers such as Silverlight and Flash are definitely out. As you can see in figure 5-15 (below), Microsoft doesn't want to wait around for Silverlight 5's planned 10 year lifecycle. They intend to squeeze out RIA containers by the end of 2015.

ZDNet[^]:

They might not be as fashionable as cloud computing, but the mainframe remains at the heart of many computing environments.