There are some problems with VC10 libraries and move implementations in Boost,Variant and Boost.Move. The problem is that VC10 uses move() in it's STL implementation without directly specifying namespace. That leads to ambiguity, when VC10 containers are used with boost classes. I can not exactly reproduce the bug, because I have no VC at home, but thats how it looked like: std::vector< my_variant > vec; vec.push_back( my_variant(some_data) ); // ERROR: Leads to ambiguity. Compiler can not choose between std::move that is defined in the same namespace and boost::variant::detail::move(), which is found via ADL. I think, that the same thing can happen with Boost.Move library, if some class defined in namespace boost will be used in VC++ STL containers. Most generic way to get rid of such ambiguity, is to import std::move in namespace boost (if we have std::move). Best regards, Antony Polukhin