diff --git a/doc/compliance.qbk b/doc/compliance.qbk
index 622b053f..f48881ab 100644
--- a/doc/compliance.qbk
+++ b/doc/compliance.qbk
@@ -36,9 +36,7 @@ A full implementation of `allocator_traits` requires sophisticated
 member function detection so that the fallback is used whenever the
 member function call is not well formed.
 This requires support for SFINAE expressions, which are available on
-GCC from version 4.4 and Clang. They aren't supported by
-Visual C++ 2008/2010, but with a bit of hacking it's possible to support
-certain use cases.
+GCC from version 4.4 and Clang.
 
 On other compilers, there's just a test to see if the allocator has
 a member, but no check that it can be called. So rather than using a
diff --git a/include/boost/unordered/detail/allocator_helpers.hpp b/include/boost/unordered/detail/allocator_helpers.hpp
index 216eeaef..e770960e 100644
--- a/include/boost/unordered/detail/allocator_helpers.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/unordered/detail/allocator_helpers.hpp
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ namespace boost { namespace unordered { namespace detail {
         convert_from_anything(T const&);
     };
 
-#if !defined(BOOST_NO_SFINAE_EXPR) || BOOST_WORKAROUND(BOOST_MSVC, >= 1500)
+#if !defined(BOOST_NO_SFINAE_EXPR)
 
 #   define BOOST_UNORDERED_HAVE_CALL_DETECTION 1