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What is the .NET 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5 market share?

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Ehtyar:
Indeed there is a member on the irc channel still struggling along on 64k. Is he being stubborn in not installing a 200mb framework?

Ehtyar.

mahesh2k:
Indeed there is a member on the irc channel still struggling along on 64k. Is he being stubborn in not installing a 200mb framework?
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Plus, you can add the fluctuations of data transfer on 64kb line and many times installer getting nervous and not moving further  ;D What about that?

One more point to note that if you bundle the framework with application then what will be the size of that app? and how much you're going to compress it? and if you're developer on that 64kbps line how you gonna upload it to web?  :P .

CWuestefeld:
Not exactly what you want, but here's the only authoritative, purely objective information I can find:


* More than 120M copies of the .NET Framework have been downloaded and installed using either Microsoft downloads or Windows Update
* More than 85% of new consumer PCs sold in 2004 had the .NET Framework installed
* More than 58% of business PCs have the .NET Framework preinstalled or preloaded
* Every new HP consumer imaging device (printer/scanner/camera) will install the .NET Framework if it’s not already there – that’s 3M units per year
* Every new Microsoft IntelliPoint mouse software CD ships with the .NET Framework
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http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwil/archive/2005/03/09/391199.aspx

kyrathaba:
But arguing against .NET's size simply because a minority of people are still on dial-up and 200Mb would be a prohibitively large download is like arguing that a classroom's curriculum be dumbed down to the least academically gifted student in the room.

Those people who must rely on slow internet connections will necessarily want to opt for something smaller than a .NET Framework d/l and install.  But for most of us, nowadays, who have either DSL or the emerging fiber-optics (even faster), the .NET Framework download isn't that big a deal, IMHO.

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