[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Visual Studio team recently announced that major changes are coming
for the C Runtime in VS "14", namely that they are switching to a set of
single stable releases:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/06/10/the-great-crt-refactoring.aspx

Hopefully this means that we can avoid the current maze of compiler,
runtime, and library support at some point in the future.