"One big thing that works against us having any sort of nice workaround for this, is the fact that as of Visual C++ 2010, the CRT and MFC rebuild makefiles are no longer included with the source code. In 2008 and earlier, it was so easy to rebuild CRT and MFC DLLs because there was a clear set of makefiles included. Now all there is, is a silly "these are the compiler and linker switches we use, go find your own solution to rebuild these" web page."
It's also not something that would take them work to do, as the older library versions already implemented the code paths needed for Windows 2000 and XP.
I suspect MS wants the support for older OS-es banned to make new apps unrunable on Wine too.
"One big thing that works against us having any sort of nice workaround for this, is the fact that as of Visual C++ 2010, the CRT and MFC rebuild makefiles are no longer included with the source code. In 2008 and earlier, it was so easy to rebuild CRT and MFC DLLs because there was a clear set of makefiles included. Now all there is, is a silly "these are the compiler and linker switches we use, go find your own solution to rebuild these" web page."
It's also not something that would take them work to do, as the older library versions already implemented the code paths needed for Windows 2000 and XP.
I suspect MS wants the support for older OS-es banned to make new apps unrunable on Wine too.