Errr, it says Visual Studio will limit the path length for now. Windows already support longer path names, if you use the right APIs.

My understanding is that it's not worth going over all of their code to use the newer APIs since they also rely on third parties that they can't force to update. Those would still break when dealing with longer paths.

Still sucks (the path length limit is indeed problematic, especially when dealing with Java code), but let's not exagerate things shall we?