Yes, that's pretty much what it says.

IMO, one reason Microsoft is doing this is to force developers to upgrade to newer versions of Visual Studio.

>If I read this correctly it seems slightly odd that the framework support should be tied to the OS it is running on. The implication there is that at some point in the future an application running on Vista will no longer be supported whilst the same application running on Windows 7 will be. Seems to me that the likelihood is that anything in the framework which has problems on one OS will have the same problem on the other......