Not everybody is going to install .NET 4.5 on Vista/Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008/2008 R2, so they'll need to continue issuing security fixes for .NET 4.0 at the very least.
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Not everybody is going to install .NET 4.5 on Vista/Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008/2008 R2, so they'll need to continue issuing security fixes for .NET 4.0 at the very least.