diff --git a/SuperBuild/CMake/External_boost.cmake b/SuperBuild/CMake/External_boost.cmake
index 928e78e5077ed8afaaaf0579f176d82b727fff77..f451b94ef1dc667aad8d7cb52a3f1636e2c17e61 100644
--- a/SuperBuild/CMake/External_boost.cmake
+++ b/SuperBuild/CMake/External_boost.cmake
@@ -1,125 +1,31 @@
-# Use boost 1.54. There was previously incompatibilities between boost and Qt which leads
-# to compilation errors for OTB.  We could increase boost version to last stable
-# release in future version of superbuild as we've patchedOTB code to
-# support both libraries. See the related changeset in OTB trunk:
-# http://hg.orfeo-toolbox.org/OTB/r# ev/8da67e36c78d
-
 INCLUDE_ONCE_MACRO(BOOST)
-  
+
 SETUP_SUPERBUILD(BOOST)
 
-option(SUPERBUILD_BOOST_HEADER_ONLY "Only use Boost headers" ON)
-mark_as_advanced(SUPERBUILD_BOOST_HEADER_ONLY)
-  
-if(UNIX)
-    if(SUPERBUILD_BOOST_HEADER_ONLY)
-      ExternalProject_Add(BOOST
-        PREFIX BOOST
-        URL "http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.50.0/boost_1_50_0.tar.bz2/download"
-        URL_MD5 52dd00be775e689f55a987baebccc462
-        BINARY_DIR ${BOOST_SB_BUILD_DIR}
-        INSTALL_DIR ${SB_INSTALL_PREFIX}
-        DOWNLOAD_DIR ${DOWNLOAD_LOCATION}
-        CMAKE_CACHE_ARGS ${SB_CMAKE_CACHE_ARGS}
-        PATCH_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy 
-        ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/patches/BOOST/CMakeLists.txt 
-        ${BOOST_SB_SRC}
-      )
-    else()
-      ExternalProject_Add(BOOST
-        PREFIX BOOST
-        URL "http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.50.0/boost_1_50_0.tar.bz2/download"
-        URL_MD5 52dd00be775e689f55a987baebccc462
-        BINARY_DIR ${BOOST_SB_BUILD_DIR}
-        INSTALL_DIR ${SB_INSTALL_PREFIX}
-      DOWNLOAD_DIR ${DOWNLOAD_LOCATION}
-        CONFIGURE_COMMAND
-          ${BOOST_SB_BUILD_DIR}/bootstrap.sh
-            --prefix=${SB_INSTALL_PREFIX}
-            --with-libraries=graph,test,regex
-        BUILD_COMMAND ./b2
-        INSTALL_COMMAND ./b2 install
-        PATCH_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory
-          ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/patches/BOOST/1.54.0
-          ${BOOST_SB_SRC}
-      )
-      
-      ExternalProject_Add_Step(BOOST copy_source
-        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory
-          ${BOOST_SB_SRC} ${BOOST_SB_BUILD_DIR}
-        DEPENDEES patch update
-        DEPENDERS configure
-      )
-    endif()
-    
-    
-  elseif(MSVC10)
-    
-    #TODO: find hash for archives properly
-    set(BOOST_HEADERS_URL_HASH 1605dc6085cb2dc778ef5ab6c0e59083)
-    set(BOOST_GRAPH_URL_HASH c246516ca84a3c79ae8a0b22fceb0344)
-    set(BOOST_REGEX_URL_HASH a3bfc2dc9a3ebe3c050518ecb29d6f8b)
-    set(BOOST_UTF_URL_HASH 75971963a74c76d32e01974a8e48be11)
+#all we loose is one single test from not building boost unit-testing-framework.
+#That is single test code. I don't see why we can't use something in-house
+#change test code to not use boost unit-testing-framework and all is well.
+
+if(MSVC)
+  set(BOOST_URL "http://download.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.60.0/boost_1_60_0.tar.bz2")
+  set(BOOST_URL_MD5 "65a840e1a0b13a558ff19eeb2c4f0cbe")
+else()
+  set(BOOST_URL "http://download.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.50.0/boost_1_50_0.tar.bz2")
+  set(BOOST_URL_MD5 "52dd00be775e689f55a987baebccc462")
+endif()
 
-    set(BOOST_HEADERS_URL "http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.50.0/boost_1_50_headers.zip/download")
-    set(BOOST_GRAPH_URL "http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.50.0/libboost_graph-vc100-mt-1_50.zip/download")
-    set(BOOST_UTF_URL "http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.50.0/boost_unit_test_framework-vc100-mt-1_50.zip/download")
-    set(BOOST_REGEX_URL "http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.50.0/libboost_regex-vc100-mt-1_50.zip/download")
+ExternalProject_Add(BOOST
+  PREFIX BOOST
+  URL "${BOOST_URL}"
+  URL_MD5 ${BOOST_URL_MD5}
+  BINARY_DIR ${BOOST_SB_BUILD_DIR}
+  INSTALL_DIR ${SB_INSTALL_PREFIX}
+  DOWNLOAD_DIR ${DOWNLOAD_LOCATION}
+  CMAKE_CACHE_ARGS ${SB_CMAKE_CACHE_ARGS}
+  PATCH_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
+  ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/patches/BOOST/CMakeLists.txt
+  ${BOOST_SB_SRC}
+  )
 
-    ExternalProject_Add(BOOST_HEADERS
-        PREFIX BOOST/_HEADERS
-        URL ${BOOST_HEADERS_URL}
-        URL_MD5 ${BOOST_HEADERS_URL_HASH}
-        SOURCE_DIR ${BOOST_SB_SRC}/include/boost
-        CONFIGURE_COMMAND ""
-        BUILD_COMMAND ""
-        INSTALL_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory ${BOOST_SB_SRC}/include/ ${SB_INSTALL_PREFIX}/include/
-     )
-    set(BOOSTLIBS)
-    foreach(BOOSTLIB "REGEX" "GRAPH" "UTF")
-        ExternalProject_Add(BOOST_${BOOSTLIB}
-            PREFIX BOOST/_${BOOSTLIB}
-            URL ${BOOST_${BOOSTLIB}_URL}
-            URL_MD5 ${BOOST_${BOOSTLIB}_URL_HASH} 
-            SOURCE_DIR ${BOOST_SB_SRC}/lib
-            DEPENDS BOOST_HEADERS
-            CONFIGURE_COMMAND ""
-            BUILD_COMMAND ""
-            INSTALL_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory ${BOOST_SB_SRC}/lib ${SB_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib
-        )
-    list(APPEND BOOSTLIBS BOOST_${BOOSTLIB})
-    endforeach()
-    
-    ExternalProject_Add(BOOST
-      PREFIX BOOST
-      DOWNLOAD_COMMAND ""
-      SOURCE_DIR ${BOOST_SB_SRC}
-      DEPENDS ${BOOSTLIBS}
-      CONFIGURE_COMMAND ""
-      BUILD_COMMAND ""
-      INSTALL_COMMAND ""
-    )
-  message(STATUS "  Using Boost SuperBuild version (prebuilt binaries)")
-    
-elseif(MSVC14)
-  if(SUPERBUILD_BOOST_HEADER_ONLY)
-    ExternalProject_Add(BOOST
-      PREFIX BOOST
-      URL "http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.60.0/boost_1_60_0.tar.bz2/download"
-      URL_MD5 65a840e1a0b13a558ff19eeb2c4f0cbe
-      BINARY_DIR ${BOOST_SB_BUILD_DIR}
-      INSTALL_DIR ${SB_INSTALL_PREFIX}
-      DOWNLOAD_DIR ${DOWNLOAD_LOCATION}
-      CMAKE_CACHE_ARGS ${SB_CMAKE_CACHE_ARGS}
-      PATCH_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
-      ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/patches/BOOST/CMakeLists.txt
-      ${BOOST_SB_SRC}
-      )
-  else()
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "not build yet")
-  endif()
-endif() #end else MSVC
-  
 set(_SB_Boost_INCLUDE_DIR ${SB_INSTALL_PREFIX}/include)
 set(_SB_Boost_LIBRARY_DIR ${SB_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib)
-  
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