Windows XP and Vista Long Term Support Plan

Thu Oct 13 02:23:12 UTC 2016

On 10/12/2016 5:09 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
>
> This one is a non-argument: supporting XP/Vista isn't preventing us from
> using the latest Visual Studio. It only prevents us from using some newer
> win32 APIs.
>
>

It does prevent us from using C++11 thread-safe "magic" statics in 
VS2015 as they are not properly supported on Windows XP [1].

[1] 
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/1789709/visual-c-2015-runtime-broken-on-windows-server-2003-c-11-magic-statics 