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by int_19h 2323 days ago
And yet you can still run .NET 1.0 apps on Win10, and this isn't changing in the foreseeable future.

Hell, you can run VB6 apps on Win10 - it even ships the runtime! - and the remaining hold-outs in that developer community have been complaining about abandonment for two whole decades now.
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scarface74 2323 days ago
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/install/ru...

The .NET Framework 1.1 is not supported on the Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, or the Windows 10 operating systems. In some cases, the .NET Framework 1.1 is specifically identified as required for an app to run. In those cases, you should contact your independent software vendor (ISV) to have the app upgraded to run on the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or later version. For additional information, see Migrating from the .NET Framework 1.1.

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int_19h 2323 days ago
You can't install .NET 1.x itself on Win10. But you can install .NET 3.5, and it can run .NET 1.x apps.
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scarface74 2322 days ago
From the article “In some cases, the .NET Framework 1.1 is specifically identified as required for an app to run”

By “specifically identified” it means that some applications actually hard coded a check of 1.1.

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thomasz 2322 days ago
If app developers explicitly prevent their code from running on future platforms, this is hardly the fault of the platform.
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FireBeyond 2322 days ago
Which would be no different to a macOS app hard coding a check for 10.3 and not working if you have anything newer. Neither says that the app _couldn't_ run, just that a badly thought gate prevents it.
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scarface74 2322 days ago
Whether the app could run or not is irrelevant if the app doesn’t run. There must be enough apps that don’t run that MS thought to call it out.
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cptskippy 2322 days ago
> There must be enough apps that don’t run that MS thought to call it out.

The callout exists because Microsoft takes a different approach to support from Apple. Microsoft provides support material for all of it's legacy and deprecated software, as well as the ability to download and install them. So it's important to identify and track incompatibilities between them.

When Apple moves the past is whitewashed over and when support stops they forget it ever happened.

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