@@ -126,17 +126,9 @@ Windows (32/64-bit)
 
 Win32 and Win64 work and are tested at least each official release.
 
-The recommended C compiler compatible with Python 2.7 is this one:
-http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266
-There is a known problem with distutils on Python 2.7, as
-explained in https://bugs.python.org/issue23246, and the same
-problem applies whenever you want to run compile() to build a dll with
-this specific compiler suite download.
-``import setuptools`` might help, but YMMV
-
-More generally, the solution that should always work is to download the
-sources of CFFI (instead of a prebuilt binary) and make sure that you
-build it with the same version of Python that will use it.
+The solution that should always work is to download the sources of
+CFFI (instead of a prebuilt binary) and make sure that you build it
+with the same version of Python that will use it.
 For example, with virtualenv:
 
 * ``virtualenv ~/venv``