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The .NET platform (pronounced as “dot net”; formerly named .NET Core) is a free and open-source, managed computer software framework for Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems.¹ It is a cross-platform successor to the.NET Framework. The project is mainly developed by Microsoft employees by way of the.NET Foundation and is today released under an MIT License.[

New versions of the.NET platform are released annually, typically in November. The most recent version of.NET is.NET 10, released in November 2025, which is a long-term support (LTS) version, and is scheduled to receive updates until November 2028.²

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Footnotes

1. “Download.NET Core”. microsoft.com. Microsoft. Archived from the original on September 3, 2017. Retrieved October 31, 2017. ↩

2. ”.NET and.NET Core official support policy”. .NET. Microsoft. ↩