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Multi-targeting was how the XP support worked before this announcement. The problem was that the main reason to upgrade is to get the new C++11 langauge feature
by Negitivefrags 14y ago
Multi-targeting was how the XP support worked before this announcement. The problem was that the main reason to upgrade is to get the new C++11 langauge features, not new IDE features.
With the previous approach you still can't use the new features because the XP support is simply to use the VS2010 compiler within the VS2012 IDE.
This new announcement is that the VS2012 toolchain will support XP directly.
As someone who can only use the subset of C++11 features that both GCC and MSVC both support, I am very pleased with this news.