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The difference in pricing will certainly make them consider a switch.
The same happens with other vendors when they have their own conventions to be fair.
A good example is French Canadian region Lac St Jean where parents are allowed to select their embryo considering rare diseases present in the region :
http://www.procreacliniques.com/en/genetic-testing/french-ca...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ef2xyb33
WPF main advantage over Winforms is XAML vs tool-generated designer class IMHO. Most of the other concepts have their equivalents in both technology.
And Microsoft is still holding on what will come next after XNA for game development in a managed context on Windows and beyond AFAIK.
https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/10122/looking-fo...
and here :
https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/10128/prior-art-...
http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/03/11/upcoming-mission-falco...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/internationalproperty/33...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#Internet_Expl...
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