Sorry, but we don't go to stay on VS2010 because core devs wanna use lambas and other c++11 only features, if you can't afford W7/8 machine, install Linux, but we don't go to stay on a 13 years old unsuported OS, and if next year VS2014 is released and GCC 4.9 becomes final and we see c++14 can help us we will force again compiler minimum requirement ussing c++14 only features, if you don't wanna have gunship battle, stay on VS2010 or switch to mangos. Ah, btw, "as most server machines run better off of xp/vist and MSVS 2010" you can also switch into linux and there it will run even better.