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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Came across this item
<http://www.itwriting.com/blog/3385-lessons-from-evernotes-flight-from-net.html>
about how Evernote for Windows abandoned WPF and Dotnet when moving from
version 3.5 to 4.0, with the result that

    On our test hardware, Evernote 4 starts five times faster, and uses half
    the memory of Evernote 3.5.

The whole managed-code/auto-garbage-collected concept may really appeal to
corporate code-cutter types, but I think it has real trouble in the mass
market.