Quote Originally Posted by baja_yu View Post
Many I know are reluctant because of the huge .Net Framework (230MB for 3.5, and even 50 for v4) compared to VB6 runtime, which is now available with XP and up by default.
Get Vista or Win7, they ship with .Net pre-installed (Vista doesn't have 3.5 or 4.0, but Win7 has 3.5)

Then you wont be downloading the FW at all, also as more versions of windows are released they'll continue to ship with .Net pre-installed just like Win98 and up come with the vb6 runtime pre-installed.

Also I'd rather have 1 big download and all of the programs being 5MB or less than a slew of programs being 70MB+ each because they all have to replicate the same code instead of just using an already provided framework.

That and when a security thing or bug has been fixed I'd rather get 1 update that patches all of those little programs then have have a patch for each program. In the long run not having a larger framework installed means a lot more downloading overall