> It seems to me that your assertion is basically equivalent to, a few years ago, telling people to stop using newer HTML features that most browsers support because IE didn't support them. Sure, maybe stay away from bleeding edge features, but there comes a point in time where you have to stop blaming the user because Microsoft can't get their act together.
If anything, that makes me even more likely to blame the user. Microsoft always lags behind on stuff like this, why would anybody expect them to change now?
Microsoft was one of the first to implement a wide variety of C++11 features in their standard library and in their compiler, which made it harder to then port it to Mac OS X/Linux due to the fact that the standard library had not yet yet caught up there.
If anything, that makes me even more likely to blame the user. Microsoft always lags behind on stuff like this, why would anybody expect them to change now?
Back in the IE6/IE7 days, Microsoft wasn't beating the drum for developers to code to HTML5. But that's exactly what's happening now - Microsoft is evangalizing C++2011 but they can't get their crufty old compiler to build that code.
If anything, that makes me even more likely to blame the user. Microsoft always lags behind on stuff like this, why would anybody expect them to change now?