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Has Microsoft stated whether they intend to keep the WinXP-compatible toolchain around? I imagine they won't now that XP is officially discontinued. Then again
by TillE 12y ago
Has Microsoft stated whether they intend to keep the WinXP-compatible toolchain around? I imagine they won't now that XP is officially discontinued.
Then again, Windows Server 2003 is still hanging around until next year, so maybe they won't ditch that compiler just yet.
- taspeotis 12y ago(Speculation, I haven't actually installed VS14 and side-by-side is not supported so I couldn't test this anyway.) It's probably gone but the toolset targeting is likely still around. So if you've VS2013 installed with the XP-compatible compiler and Windows SDK then you can just choose that toolset. Usual disclaimer applies: it's an old compiler, you won't get the new language features etc.
- greatdox 12y agoI think so because Windows XP POS has support until 2019 and businesses still need to develop POS apps for their embedded POS systems. Even if the consumer XP has dropped support the POS version of XP has not yet. Too many ATMs and POS systems that still run XP, give them until 2019 to switch to Windows 8 POS systems.
- yuhong 12y agoI don't think they are going to keep XP support for that reason alone though.
- cokernel_hacker 12y agoThis version of Visual Studio still seems to have XP support.