Breaking Changes (CRT)

Breaking changes in the CRT.

Breaking changes

Support for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows NT 4.0 has been removed.
The following global variables have been removed:
- _osplatform
- _osver
- _winmajor
- _winminor
- _winver
The following functions have been removed. Use the Windows API functions GetVersion or GetVersionEx instead:
- _get_osplatform
- _get_osver
- _get_winmajor
- _get_winminor
- _get_winver
The syntax for SAL Annotations has changed. For more information, see SAL Annotations.
The IEEE filter now supports the SSE 4.1 instruction set. For more information, see _fpieee_flt.
The C Run-Time Libraries that ship with Visual Studio are no longer dependent on the system DLL msvcrt.dll.