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Krusing
Krusing

Reputation: 307

Unable to install Visual Studio 2015 on Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2

When downloading Visual Studio Express 2015 for Web and running the vsn_full_ENU.exe, I get the following message: The specified program requires a newer version of windows.

The Visual Studio 2015 compability table clearly state that Visual Studio 2015 is compatible with Windows Server 2008. Why do I get this message?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2879

Answers (2)

Krusing
Krusing

Reputation: 307

After a long time being redirected on the phone between Microsoft Developer Network and Microsoft Technical support I finally got my answer:

I need a MSDN Subscription associated with my Microsoft account to be able to download Visual Studio 2010 Express from MSDN. The free to download version of Visual Studio only apply to the latest version of Visual Studio (atm Visual Studio 2015 Express).

Upvotes: 0

Harry Johnston
Harry Johnston

Reputation: 36348

The table you linked to shows which operating systems will run the applications that VS2015 can build, not which operating systems VS2015 will itself run on.

As you can see in the system requirements table for Visual Studio 2015, Windows Server 2008 is not supported. You must have at least Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.

Upvotes: 1

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