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When is the .net pace of change going to slow down, or the length of time to support a given .net version going to increase?
Now that .NET has begun to stabilize (and we're getting close to .NET 10), I'm finding that organizations are having a hard time keeping up with the release versions of .NET - 3 years isn't enough time for them to develop and place into production only to find that they're almost out of support.
Is there going to be a time when a .NET version will be supported by Microsoft for a longer period of time, say 6 years, or 10 years? Or the pace of new versions be slowed down to one per every 2 years or something like that?
@rhires there are no plans at the moment to diverge from the current annual cadence with every alternate release being an LTS. If you're representing a specific customer or organization I'm happy to connect directly, you can send me email - firstname_dot_lastname_at_microsoft_dot_com.
The pace is pretty blistering. It's now April and you're already on 9 preview 3, so one has to wonder what is the point of moving to 8 right now? What was ever the point of migrating to 7?
I have production WPF apps still in 4.7.2/VS2019 due to WPF designer issues, it would be great if someone at MS would devote some attention to that.
Well... you could always choose to migrate to Java instead and then pay Oracle for support until the end of the universe I suppose.
