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@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ The Open Source Routing Machine is a high performance routing engine written in
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 | Linux        | [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend) |
-| Windows      | [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/4iuo3s9gxprmcjjh)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/DennisOSRM/osrm-backend) |
 | Coverage     | [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend) |
 
 ## Building