diff --git a/src/ccutil/platform.h b/src/ccutil/platform.h
index 808bec9dc..7c711aa20 100644
--- a/src/ccutil/platform.h
+++ b/src/ccutil/platform.h
@@ -32,11 +32,6 @@
 #define ultoa _ultoa
 #endif  /* __GNUC__ */
 #define SIGNED
-#if defined(_MSC_VER)
-#if (_MSC_VER < 1900)
-#define snprintf _snprintf
-#endif
-#endif /* defined(_MSC_VER) */
 #else
 #include <climits>
 #ifndef PATH_MAX
diff --git a/src/lstm/weightmatrix.cpp b/src/lstm/weightmatrix.cpp
index 82058786a..ccc77c1e9 100644
--- a/src/lstm/weightmatrix.cpp
+++ b/src/lstm/weightmatrix.cpp
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@
 
 namespace tesseract {
 
-#if (defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER < 1900) || defined(ANDROID)
+#if defined(ANDROID)
 static inline double log2(double n) {
   return log(n) / log(2.0);
 }
-#endif  // _MSC_VER
+#endif // ANDROID
 
 // Number of iterations after which the correction effectively becomes unity.
 const int kAdamCorrectionIterations = 200000;
diff --git a/src/viewer/svutil.h b/src/viewer/svutil.h
index 570dc005e..9484a5ae2 100644
--- a/src/viewer/svutil.h
+++ b/src/viewer/svutil.h
@@ -25,16 +25,8 @@
 #define TESSERACT_VIEWER_SVUTIL_H_
 
 #ifdef _WIN32
-#ifndef __GNUC__
 #include <windows.h>
 #include "platform.h"
-#if defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER < 1900
-#define snprintf _snprintf
-#endif
-#else
-#include "platform.h"
-#include <windows.h>
-#endif
 #else
 #include <pthread.h>
 #include <semaphore.h>
diff --git a/src/wordrec/language_model.cpp b/src/wordrec/language_model.cpp
index b1cd48b92..dd0512751 100644
--- a/src/wordrec/language_model.cpp
+++ b/src/wordrec/language_model.cpp
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ namespace tesseract {
 class LMPainPoints;
 struct FontInfo;
 
-#if (defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER < 1900) || defined(ANDROID)
+#if defined(ANDROID)
 static inline double log2(double n) {
   return log(n) / log(2.0);
 }
-#endif  // _MSC_VER
+#endif // ANDROID
 
 const float LanguageModel::kMaxAvgNgramCost = 25.0f;