[Spearchucker]

Didn't down-vote you, but I can guess why someone else might've.

Up until this post you didn't have it (the Microsoft OCR library) anywhere. You're still free as ever to develop using all the non-RT technologies (Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, WF, WCF and so on). All of it's officially supported.

And all said and done, Microsoft is doing no more or less than any other tech company. They release new stuff. And sometimes a new release is constrained in some way, like when an iPhone app is released by some startup that doesn't bother with an Android or Windows Phone equivalent. They may come eventually, or not...