I wouldn't say that MS "is moving" the .NET release cadence "towards", it has been quite regular for the last few years already: There is a major version every

I wouldn't say that MS "is moving" the .NET release cadence "towards", it has been quite regular for the last few years already: There is a major version every November, since 2020. And every second one is Long Term Support (.NET 6 is LTS, and .NET 8 will be) But yes, this is a "modern" cadence of small, frequent releases, and it is expected to continue like that. The table of releases with dates is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET > I'd be interested in how the usage outside of Windows servers If you're doing microservices, web services, queue processing, etc in a .NET version >= 5.0, then hosting on containers or Linux servers is common, even the norm. If you doing AWS Lambdas or Azure functions then the host OS is "IDK, not important, probably a linux"