Updated: June 5, 2026 (February 10, 2024)
Roadmap.NET
.NET is Microsoft’s unified, enterprise-grade, open source platform for building and running applications for Windows, Linux, macOS, and cloud environments like containers, serverless compute, and PaaS runtimes. It uses a common runtime, libraries, and tooling for building business applications across Web, desktop, mobile, and service-based workloads and is becoming the main way to build AI-enabled applications and workflows in code. In many organizations, .NET and its predecessor, .NET Framework, run a significant portion of the application portfolio, so decisions about versioning, support, and modernization can affect technical standards, supplier strategy, application risk, and the cost and timing of modernizing apps.
Product: .NET
Licensing: Not Applicable
Near Term (Mid-2026–2027)
.NET remains the core platform underpinning many existing business systems and the likely path for modernizing them. It’s also becoming a critical foundation for AI-enabled business applications and workflows, which increases the strategic importance of decisions about release timing, support, and modernization.
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