Can VisualStudio 2015 be installed on Windows Vista? - visual-studio

On my Vista machine, while installing VS 2015 CE, the installer shows message "the specified program requires new version of windows".
Is there anything special we have to do to install VS 2015 CE or it does not support Vista?
Thank you

Visual Studio 2015 can not be installed on Vista.
Supported Windows versions for Visual Studio 2015
Windows 10
Windows 8.1
Windows 8
Windows 7 Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
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