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Richard Heathfield

11/4/2015 12:49:00 AM

On 04/11/15 00:26, cwf wrote:
> Microsoft ends support for WebForms.
> Can anyone confirm this?
> Some links maybe. Whan is the support supposed to be stopped?

No mention of Web forms on MS's graveyard page:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/gp/lifeobsole...

So you should be all right for long enough to migrate to a LAMP stack.

Out of a playful sense of irony, I looked up "Reasons not to use Open
Source" and, sure enough, there amongst them was "When Proprietary
Software offers better support".

Presumably, "better support" means "withdraw the product from
circulation, thus requiring your users to pay for the latest upgrade (or
the new flavour of the month) or risk falling behind the technology
curve and being mocked by their shrinkwrap-avid friends".

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