For now we are supporting four versions of the MSVC starting from 7.0. The MSVC 7.0 doesn't supports the modern C++ features and I propose to discontinue supporting of this compiler in stdcxx 4.3 version.
Everyone is encouraged to vote, including non-committers. This vote will close on Tuesday, 01/29 at 6:00 AM US/Mountain time. Follow the link for the countdown: http://tinyurl.com/23clxd Farid.