Will Microsoft continue to support IMAPI V2?

Question

 

Will Microsoft continue to support IMAPI V2?

I haven't seen any recent posts by the Microsoft IMAPI2 gurus so I'm a bit concerned. I've developed several programs that depend on IMAPI2. Am I wasting my time continuing with development?

Will IMAPI2 be supported in the next Win OS? and in the near future? Will you continue to develop it? I think there are some further improvements that might be done. Some have  been mentioned in this forum. I've a small list of them myself.

TIA for your reply,

Bilm

Answer 1

The API is not going anywhere, not at least until Windows 8 goes out of support. Microsoft usually stuck with published API almost forever, I don't see any reason to break the APIs, short of improving battery consumption or a new optical storage format come along (don't see this happening, Microsoft is all in to the cloud). 

You can leave your wish list at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/opticalstorage/.

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Answer 2

 

Will Microsoft continue to support IMAPI V2?

I haven't seen any recent posts by the Microsoft IMAPI2 gurus so I'm a bit concerned. I've developed several programs that depend on IMAPI2. Am I wasting my time continuing with development?

Will IMAPI2 be supported in the next Win OS? and in the near future? Will you continue to develop it? I think there are some further improvements that might be done. Some have  been mentioned in this forum. I've a small list of them myself.

TIA for your reply,

Bilm

Grab a copy of Windows 8 preview to check project active status :) IMHO there's no much of development since 2008 or so...

-nismo