We are trying to make big decisions about our support for classic asp. Does anyone see a reason why Microsoft can't drop support for IIS.
Any examples of Microsoft technologies like this that have had their support dropped would help. ASP is a tricky one because dropping support in IIS would eventually kill it, unlike other technologies.
Microsoft announced today that ASP will be supported on Windows 8 for a minimum of 10 years after its release date. ASP is currently supported on all shipping versions of IIS.
Here is the latest word direct from MS:
Any examples of Microsoft technologies like this that have had their support dropped would help
What, like VB6? Everything will eventually get it's support dropped. It's too expensive for any company, even one with pockets as deep as Microsoft, to support everything forever.
TBH, I see this as a good reason to use open source projects. Even if the rest of the world drops an OSS project, you can still do whatever you want and have the source code around to do anything you need to.
While .NET is "technically" 1000x better than Classic ASP, Microsoft would be abandoning a lot of future code superstars. I started learning how to code almost 20 years ago with BASIC for the same reason ASP is valuable... it's basic.
And let's face it, with a little know-how and today's low-cost high-performance servers you can make just about any Classic ASP application fly like there's no tomorrow.
Every major O.S. needs, MUST HAVE, a fairly robust "non-compiled" counterpart to keep people educated and interested otherwise they would be placing a huge wall in front of their future growth... new coders gravitate towards the path of least resistance.