Comment by kristianp

.Net releases are installed side-by-side. I agree with the Author that a more recent minimum install of the framework would make sense, especially with the existence of LTS releases of .net [1], seems to be every 2nd major version. I don't agree with the argument that Windows would have to guarantee a particular version is installed. If an app requires .net 8 and .net 10 is installed, the app can install .net 8 next to version 10. It would however require different silos within Microsoft to communicate and plan together.

.Net 4.81 is the last one before .Net Framework was unified with .Net Core. It's very legacy by now, but there would be many enterprise/business apps that still require it.

[1] https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/d...