They don't call it the cutting edge for nothing. Just ask the developers who've been along for the three-plus-year ride as Microsoft has conceptualized, rethought, renamed and finalized the .NET Framework 3.0 (.NET FX 3.0).
Unlike the .NET Framework 2.0, which Microsoft released in October 2005 as a separate downloadable add-on to Windows XP, .NET FX 3.0 will ship as part of Windows Vista, due out in November. That move-coupled with Microsoft's 2004 decision (spurred by the developer community) to back-port the new framework to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, rather than making it a Vista/Longhorn Server deliverable only-has created a wider pool of potential users who will be able to run .NET FX 3.0-based applications.
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