On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 7:06 AM, <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote: > I hereby predict that Microsoft will revert this decision, and that VS > Express > 11 will be able to build CPython. And your prediction was right on :-) : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/08/visual-studio-express-2012-for-windows-desktop.aspx. -- # Meador