[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 June 2014 16:21, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

I saw that, although it implied to me that it was partial for  "14", and we'd still have to wait till all the third party libraries get their act together ( or compile them ourselves).