Background:
Microsoft Windows Servers are the absolute best when used as binary pass-through print servers using LPD/LPR. Easy to backup, restore, migrate, make highly available without clustering, are fast and reliable. You don't have driver issues, higher traffic from workstation/printer polling, no domain requirements like normal Windows printing or having to shut down all printers to make changes like some other non-Windows OSes. They are basically just traffic cops for printing and perform the job very well. I could go on for pages about the advantages of that methodology. ...but on to the Question.
Question:
Microsoft has said that it has depreciated LPD in Windows Server 2012. The wording of LPD being removed "in subsequent versions" isn't completely clear to me. Do they mean in SP1 or SP2 or do they mean in the next full version of Windows Server 20nn? Does anyone have any insight on that wording?