Mike,

Good questions. Thank you for asking and giving us a chance to clarify.

On Nov 13, 2012, at 10:42 PM, Dana Robinson wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Michael Jackson 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>   First congratulations on the new release. I would like some clarifications 
> on the "Supported" platform changes. Specifically the "VS2008 and Windows 
> XP". I can read that in 2 different ways:
> 
> 1: The *combination* of VS2008 running on Windows XP is deprecated
> 2: VS2008 on *any* version of Windows AND Windows XP
> 
> Unless I am misinformed,
> 
> - VS2008 will not be supported.
> - Windows XP will not be supported.
> 
Dana's statement is correct. 

We will try to make our announcements less ambiguous next time!

Elena

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> From what I know if the code, I'd imagine this shouldn't be an issue for most 
> people.  It mainly affects what binaries we produce and our test systems.  
> CMake will still produce VS2008 projects and we don't have very much 
> Windows-specific code.  I can't think of anything off the top of my head that 
> won't work on any NT-based Windows system.
> 
> Dana
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