How Many Versions Of Microsoft .NET Framework Should be Running Concurrently

Going to Necro this post just to say that yes, you are a bloody idiot! Don't know where you live but where I am a 1TB SSD costs $500....I can build a new pc with a standard SATA HD for that......So yeah, people who went out an bought an SSD or even a pc that came with one don't have much space.

Telling someone that they are an idiot because they may not have the actual space due to limitations in;

A) Budget

B) Availability

or C) It's what came with it, is completely idiotic. It was a simple and legitimate question as some programs when they update do not remove older copies (most do now but there are a select few that don't).

There are people out there that don't know much about the software running their computers, and you can't put them at fault for asking questions so that they can LEARN. Ed was standing up for a person who was asking so that they can learn and you just had to come along to rip at him and the OP. You have an issue with helping people then don't ever come back to a tech support forum. Yeah I saw you whine about how you've been doing it for blah blah blah......I help people with their issues and no matter what I know that no question is a stupid question. You never know what their current or past history with computers are, and you don't know if say, this is the first Windows computer that they have owned. I know a lot of people who will only use Linux or MAC and when you put them on a Windows PC they can't figure it out as quick as someone raised off Windows.

So don't go around running people down because they don't know as much as you but want to learn, GOT IT!

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:54:26 +0000, EdTenderle wrote:

Dear Ken,

I don't know exactly what you consider tiny. Perhaps you are from Texas or Alaska. On one of my systems, I am looking at just now, .NET Framework in all its versions is sitting on roughly 600MB of space. This in no way strikes me or really anyone I have asked as "tiny." Perhaps you consider it miniscule relative to some other pasta code behemoth. 

These days you can buy a 120GB hard drive for around $60, At that

price, 600MB is about 3 US pennies worth. Yes, I consider 3 pennies

worth to be tiny.

And a 120GB drive is smaller than most people have these days. If you

have a bigger drive, the cost per GB is even lower, so the 600MB might

well be even less than one penny's worth.

Back in the days of my first personal computer (1987) I had a 20MB

hard drive that cost around $200. At that price, 600MB was worth about

$6,000. $6,000 worth of disk space certainly wasn't tiny, but those

days are long gone.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

Hi,

I know this is months old, but seriously this guy should lose his MVP status (or at least the V). Do they not have SSD's in Micro$oft land?

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:54:26 +0000, EdTenderle wrote:

Dear Ken,

I don't know exactly what you consider tiny. Perhaps you are from Texas or Alaska. On one of my systems, I am looking at just now, .NET Framework in all its versions is sitting on roughly 600MB of space. This in no way strikes me or really anyone I have asked as "tiny." Perhaps you consider it miniscule relative to some other pasta code behemoth. 

These days you can buy a 120GB hard drive for around $60, At that
price, 600MB is about 3 US pennies worth. Yes, I consider 3 pennies
worth to be tiny.

And a 120GB drive is smaller than most people have these days. If you
have a bigger drive, the cost per GB is even lower, so the 600MB might
well be even less than one penny's worth.

Back in the days of my first personal computer (1987) I had a 20MB
hard drive that cost around $200. At that price, 600MB was worth about
$6,000. $6,000 worth of disk space certainly wasn't tiny, but those
days are long gone.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

Dear Ken,

I don't know exactly what you consider tiny. Perhaps you are from Texas or Alaska. On one of my systems, I am looking at just now, .NET Framework in all its versions is sitting on roughly 600MB of space. This in no way strikes me or really anyone I have asked as "tiny." Perhaps you consider it miniscule relative to some other pasta code behemoth.

Rather than attempting to dismiss the question by trivializing it ... evidently Just Trying To Learn doesn't feel the footprint is particularly tiny either ... you might have shown off what you know and informed him and the others how one determines which programs are or are not using a specific version of .NET Framework.  That might actually be useful to share.

So how about a real answer, preferably from someone who has one? Perhaps there is no one anymore at MS who actually knows these kinds of things.