I noticed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/voices/deepc08172000.asp that, along with the new C# compiler, MS's .NET beta SDK appears to include cl, the Visual C++ C/C++ compiler. I don't know what the licencing's like, or even if everything you need to compile things is included [having Visual Studio already, and no need for anything else in the package, I haven't downloaded it], but I figured someone listening here might be interested. (Can we use it with the Cygnus stuff to allow people who haven't bought Visual C++ to compile AbiWord on windows, I wonder?) Jamie. [Yes, I'm still here, just finding it hard to find time to work on AbiWord at the moment :-]
