Well, they're not. It's a major pita when MSVC cannot understand a pefectly standard C++ construction. And Microsoft is well aware of that, they made jumps an

Well, they're not. It's a major pita when MSVC cannot understand a pefectly standard C++ construction. And Microsoft is well aware of that, they made jumps and leaps recently to bring their level of C++ compiler support to the actual standard level, finally you can say MSVC actually understands standard C++.