abandoned? I'm using it everyday for about 2 years, It was updated looong time ago, but it works.
I purchased premium back then for few $ and only issue so far was last year, when it wasn't working for a week because some "network issues".

Also, with GrowlForWindows (free) it can send you notification from windows with commandline like
and it looks like this

In my case, I get notification every time sgminer crashes and restarts (my .bat for launching sgminer)