great! but should it really be that long of code for tic tac toe? you didn't use some of the most vital parts of c++ to get more optimized code. such as classes and templates exceptions etc. but other than that it's pretty nice. want another game to make? try from scratch make a game which allows you to enter your players name and give them a health bar and give them a list of items to choose from when they choose it depending on what it is it could do negative damage or positive influence etc. then you can make a text rpg. that'd be sick. you got good potential. just need some more optimization.

tl;dr
codes to long(good job though)
use classes templates and other of c++ to make code smaller.
make a rpg with listed items and health

win32 is good for if you want to use it for windows the gcc is the more viable option to win32. or it's comparable. if you want to be a good c++ gui dev use code::blocks and learn that library and skip the whole learning of win32 because gcc can be run on both windows and linux boxes. as opposed to just running on windows.

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best c++ compiler. but to do actual gui programming you have to add libraries such as opengl etc. but you can do all kinds of stuff. as well they have qt creator which is the compiler you would want to use but the libraries are a little bit more difficult to get used to as they use a lot of qt stuff but it ultimately might be easier to switch over from visual c++

here's a link to that.
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openGL is good for game design. you should realy look into the qt creator it's best for making programs. lol i was mixed up earlier. no i dont' have a skype or msn. lol aim? old school.