So the day has arrived which any people have been thinking about and seeing coming. MS is going to focus it's efforts on the the ADO.NET entity framework and LINQ to SQL will go they way of "not quite good enough for us" technologies.

A quote from the ADO.NET team blog states... "We’re making significant investments in the Entity Framework such that as of .NET 4.0 the Entity Framework will be our recommended data access solution for LINQ to relational scenarios"  

Having not used LINQ to SQL in ernest, this is not a big deal for me but I see more storm clouds coming from the community and the many people who have embraced this. Time will tell whether this is a good judgment cal.... 

Our well respected Ayende makes a few good points...