There was never any anti-MS sentiment - Visual Studio is not C99 compliant and nobody was going to accept dirty workarounds. If you want to compile x264 on wind

There was never any anti-MS sentiment - Visual Studio is not C99 compliant and nobody was going to accept dirty workarounds. If you want to compile x264 on windows you can compile it either with MingW or cygwin with GCC. ICC is also supported on Linux.