Public Folders: is there a future for them?

Some time ago I have read some news saying that Microsoft will discontinue support of the Public Folders in future versions of MS Exchange, and that were really bad news for both me (as the one who intensively uses Public Folders) and for Public Folder Watcher...
But this month I read one article from MS saying that Public Folders are really popular and will be supported for another 10 years. Seems like a great news...
Also it seems that lots of users will be needing Public Folder Watcher for another 10 years :) Really great.
Some more info on the lifecycle of the MS products can be found here.

PFW Volume Discounts

Today we have introduced volume discounts for the Public Folder Watcher.

Here they are:

Quantity	Price per Unit
1 - 5	15.00 USD
6 - 15	14.25 USD
16 - 30	13.50 USD
31 - 50	12.75 USD
51 - 200	10.50 USD

Public Folder Watcher developers blog

Hi

My name is Dmitrij Zaharov (my personal blog could be seen here) and I am going to write here about the product that I am curretly developing (with my business partner Alex Kucherenko).

Our product is named Public Folder Watcher. It is an addon for the MS Outlook, that can watch for the new posts in Exchange Public Folders and for any new emails. Also this product is always tracking the list of the unread posts or emails.

In this blog I will try to provide some information on the product, like the information on the upcoming releases, or the features that I am going to implement.

Also I am going to use this blog to allow users to provide some feedback on the product.

Stay tuned for updates :)