Hello,
What is the likelyhood of a PC having the .net 2.0 framework installed nowadays .. ?
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pretty high if a new pc vista comes with .net framework 3.0 which includes .net framework 2
PeanutPower
2010-01-24 15:34:43
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If the PC runs Windows Vista or higher, it will be installed. (Vista includes .Net 3.0)
If the PC runs XP, it'll probably still be installed.
SLaks
2010-01-24 15:36:43
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Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and (I think) Windows XP SP3 all have the .Net framework installed by default.
Simon
2010-01-24 15:37:03
Windows XP does not include .Net 2.0
SLaks
2010-01-24 15:39:47
+4
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See this blog post:
After some digging, here's what I've got:
Well over 90% of the PCs in the world have some version of the .NET Framework installed.
Over 65% of Windows PCs in the world have .NET 3.5 SP1 installed.
marc_s
2010-01-24 15:37:27
@SLaks: ... doesn't precisely answer the question? How do you answer a question like that precisely? This is pretty much as precise as you can get :p
Svish
2010-01-24 15:41:26
@Slaks: that's the best number I can find - I don't know of any more specific or more accurate numbers on .NET 2.0 and up - sorry.
marc_s
2010-01-24 16:00:16
@Slkas, if 65% have 3.5, then at least 65% have 2.0, since 3.0 and 3.5 are merely extensions of the 2.0 runtime. Therefore, it's a pretty precise answer.
Chris
2010-01-24 20:04:03
+3
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I can't find any actual penetration numbers released by Microsoft but Alexander McCabe has published some information from his web logs which has .NET 2.0 at 70%.
Brian Hasden
2010-01-24 15:39:33
StatOwl shows NET 2.0 penetration at 83% as of December 2009 and climbing at approximately 1% per month. See my answer below for the link.
Ray Burns
2010-01-25 06:21:39
+1
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Depends what PCs you're sampling. As others have already said, any reasonably up-to-date and service-packed PC should have it installed -- but there are plenty of corporate desktop builds that don't include it, and lots of PCs out there that never get updated.
Matt Bishop
2010-01-24 15:46:32
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Why you need to ask? You can ship .Net 2.0 with your app which adds 20MB to the installer. If the client value your program then they should have no problem run your setup program and install .Net 2.0.
I have only client out of thousands of clients that refuse to install .Net 2.0 in their network because the client's network have a software that is somehow incompatible with .Net 2.0 and obviously the client value the software more than ours. We end up back-porting our code back to .Net 1.1 and the client has no problem with losing features.
Sheng Jiang 蒋晟
2010-01-24 20:01:14
20MB is a *whopping* addition when your program is only a few hundred kilobytes.
Jason Williams
2010-01-24 20:07:57
agreed "20MB is a whopping addition when your program is only a few hundred kilobytes" :)
GX
2010-01-24 22:43:49
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The StatOwl NET Framework Page shows a NET 2.0 penetration of 83% as of December 2009 and trending upward at approximately 1% per month.
Ray Burns
2010-01-25 06:19:56