Yes, the .NET Client will still be in 2025.1. We promised several years ago that we would give a ONE YEAR runway when we announce the deprecation of the .NET Client (AKA Smart Client). We unannounced reannounced that announcement. we also did NOT announce the deprecation of the smart client, so you can all put on your thinking caps and figure out that you have at least 18-24 months before the smart client has its sunset.
There ARE a couple of sunsets that we reminded people about:
- the Classic and Modern MENU have now (as of 2024.1) been removed from options when you log in. Whether you log in via the client, or the browser, you will get the Kinetic menu, and no longer have the choice to see the 20+ year old classic, or the 10+ year old “modern” menu. The Menu contents are all Kinetic. NOTE that you can STILL LAUNCH SMART CLIENT APPS… those are all still there!
- as of 2024.2, we are making one more step to get people into the browser. We are taking away the Smart Client Login screen. This is so that everyone will log in via a browser. Since everyone would still end up in the Kinetic menu, this gets everything working much more smoothly. YOU CAN STILL LAUCH SMART CLIENT APPS from the browser with the Browser First functionality we added in 2023.2… All we are taking away is the login screen (User ID and Password) from the smart client. Everything else remains.