<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Oct 30, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Renato Golin <<a href="mailto:renato.golin@linaro.org">renato.golin@linaro.org</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">So, I didn't take Chandler's words that literally, but even if you do, four previous releases means 2 whole years. Given current interest from Microsoft towards C++ compatibility in their compiler, and the capacity they have of getting things done (basically, money), I'd be surprised if they'd fall behind for that long.</div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The timeframe “2 whole years” might seem like a long time to us, but not everybody lives in the world where they adopt new toolsets so quickly. That’s my concern about dropping VS 2010 support. So this is both a question about how fast Visual Studio moves, but also the people who use Visual Studio.</div></div></body></html>