[Python-Dev] VS 11 Express is Metro only.

[Nick Coghlan]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Curt Hagenlocher <curt at hagenlocher.org> wrote:
> But will it be able to target Windows XP?
>
> http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/690617/bug-apps-created-with-crt-and-mfc-vnext-11-cannot-be-used-on-windows-xp-sp3

The key things to remember at this point:

1. There's every chance Microsoft will reverse this decision, for all
the reasons they introduced the Express editions of Visual Studio in
the first place (e.g. to stop haemorrhaging hobbyist developers to
other ecosystems where development tools aren't a profit centre). The
collective "WTF?!" from third parties at their current approach
(eloquently expressed by Peter Bright over at Ars) is going to be hard
for even the most passionate Metro advocates to ignore.
2. It's going to be at least 18 months before CPython's Windows build
is likely to migrate to VS2011, and if there's still no desktop app
support in the Express edition at that time, that will be a strong
argument against migrating.

Cheers,
Nick.

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