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+  o Code simplification and refactoring:
+    - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
+      to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
+
+    - Remove vestigial workarounds for some ancient versions of the MSVC
+      compiler.
+