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I think so because Windows XP POS has support until 2019 and businesses still need to develop POS apps for their embedded POS systems. Even if the consumer XP has dropped support the POS version of XP has not yet.

Too many ATMs and POS systems that still run XP, give them until 2019 to switch to Windows 8 POS systems.

I don't think they are going to keep XP support for that reason alone though.

(Speculation, I haven't actually installed VS14 and side-by-side is not supported so I couldn't test this anyway.)

It's probably gone but the toolset targeting is likely still around. So if you've VS2013 installed with the XP-compatible compiler and Windows SDK then you can just choose that toolset.

Usual disclaimer applies: it's an old compiler, you won't get the new language features etc.

This version of Visual Studio still seems to have XP support.