diff --git a/doc/tr1.qbk b/doc/tr1.qbk
index 3eda8f5..a53ec2d 100644
--- a/doc/tr1.qbk
+++ b/doc/tr1.qbk
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 ]
 
 [section:intro Introduction]
+
+[important This library is deprecated in favor of native C++11 standard library features, as a result 
+it receives little or no maintenance.]
+
 The TR1 library provides an implementation of the C++ Technical Report on Standard Library Extensions.
 This library does not itself implement the TR1 components, rather it's a thin wrapper that will 
 include your standard library's TR1 implementation (if it has one), otherwise it will include the Boost
diff --git a/include/boost/tr1/detail/config.hpp b/include/boost/tr1/detail/config.hpp
index 7b8505f..42069dd 100644
--- a/include/boost/tr1/detail/config.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/tr1/detail/config.hpp
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
 // this here, in addition the feature pack for VC9
 // provides a more or less full TR1 implementation:
 //
-#  if defined(_HAS_TR1) && (_HAS_TR1 + 0)
+#  if (defined(_HAS_TR1) && (_HAS_TR1 + 0)) || (_CPPLIB_VER >= 540)
 #    define BOOST_HAS_TR1_ARRAY
 #    define BOOST_HAS_TR1_REFERENCE_WRAPPER
 #    define BOOST_HAS_TR1_RESULT_OF