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Category: half-life

  • Half-life of Microsoft products is 7 years

    I get a lot of pushback from developers/managers when I tell them that the average application has a relatively short lifetime, i.e., half-life of 4-8 years. The pushback kicks in when I start citing data, up until then my listeners appear surprised/skeptical. The fact that source code has a brief and lonely existence is accepted,…

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