Unified? Kind of, but now there are two .NET runtimes in the official SDK Tim Anderson Thu 18 Feb 2021 // 13:50 UTC Share Copy Microsoft has shipped the first preview of .NET 6.0, the first long-term support release of its newly unified application platform, promising native Apple Silicon support, desktop applications on ARM64, and a ton of updates to key frameworks like ASP.NET Core. Program manager Richard Lander described .NET 6 as "the final parts of the .NET unification plan that started with .NET 5" in a lengthy post on the new release. The preview is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, though note that the desktop application frameworks, Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation, are Windows-only.