By Paul Thurrott
Publication Date: 2025-11-11 16:13:00
As promised, Microsoft today released .NET 10 after a 9 month development cycle that started with a first preview in February.
“.NET 10 is the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet,” the .NET team explains. “It’s the result of another year of effort from thousands of developers around the world. This release includes thousands of performance, security, and functional improvements across the entire .NET stack-from languages and developer tools to workloads, enabling you to build with a unified platform and easily infuse your apps with AI.”
.NET is now a free, cross-platform, and open source software platform that includes a runtime, libraries and APIs for developers, and various frameworks that span the web, mobile, desktop, AI, cloud, microservices, gaming, and Internet of Things (IoT). So it’s sort of “a floor wax and a dessert topping” that powers multiple Microsoft platforms that include Copilot, Xbox,…
