MS extend C++ significantly for Windows8... and Andrei got name drop

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 25.01.2012 23:35, schrieb Manu:
> On 26 January 2012 00:02, Brad Anderson <eco at gnuk.net
> <mailto:eco at gnuk.net>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com
>     <mailto:turkeyman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         On 25 January 2012 23:33, Trass3r <un at known.com
>         <mailto:un at known.com>> wrote:
>
>                 This is fairly interesting. MS have extended their C++
>                 compiler
>                 significantly for Windows8 with a bunch of non-standard
>                 stuff.
>
>
>             Yeah, while refusing to implement most of C++11.
>
>
>         Good! The C++11 committee should be shot. They've got it
>         completely wrong, and MS have it right for my money! :)
>         I don't want MORE STL, I want less :)
>
>
>     Herb Sutter (the man speaking in your video) is chairman of the C++
>     standards committee so it's kind of amusing that the stuff you
>     praise and the stuff you say is wrong are both led by the same man.
>     Also, he and Andrei wrote a book together (C++ Coding Standards) so
>     the name drop isn't entirely unexpected.  They do the C++ and Beyond
>     conference together (with Scott Meyers).  A large portion of the
>     questions from the attendees I saw in the Channel 9 videos were about D.
>
>
> Haha really? Amazing, but he works for Microsoft then I guess? So why is
> he fixing C++ for MS, but won't fix the C++ standard its self?
> std::function for instance, why add that if he turns around and adds a
> proper keyword for MS?

Because he is just one person in the standards process. That is how 
standards work.

Each person (or company) just gets one vote.