I saw in a Lynda training video a while back that the instructor had mentioned (and this was maybe 3 years ago) that Microsoft was not really going to continue to "support" (or improve/update I guess) LINQ as they want people to sort of move to E-F instead?
Either way, is it true that LINQ is starting to be phased out in favor of newer technologies (as I guess LINQ has been around for the past 5-10 years ?) I never really bought onto the LINQ syntax, as I'm more used to actual SQL syntax so it was confusing for me to pick up, even though it's just the order of the wording/syntax that's different, but reads almost the same as regular SQL.