Do you think Microsoft will ever not support classic asp in IIS [closed]

Question

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.

Answer 1

I think it will be supported for the near to mid term. Evidence to back this up here

Answer 2

I think this is a possibility considering it is not enabled by default in IIS7.

Another point is that Visual Studio 2003 requires hacks to make it work with Vista. So its probably not a stretch to think that that IIS10 will require hacks to make classic ASP work...

Answer 3

Programming support for VB 6 has been dropped in the sense that they won't fix any bugs unless something super critical happens, but the platform and runtime is still supported. I suspect the same for ASP on IIS.

From this article.

Answer 4

My thoughts turn to Visual Fox Pro, which should have been dead at least 5 years ago. I just ran across someone using it in production software last week. Having said that, what you should probably be concerned about is:

1. Will it become difficult or costly to hire programmers that know classic ASP?
2. Will the cost of maintaining classic ASP go up from a hosting perspective?
3. Will it become costly to the business to use a technology like classic ASP that might not easily integrate with newer web technologies?
4. Will you loose employees that would rather be working on something newer aka better for the resume and more interesting?

Answer 5

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:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2669020