GCC has been making progress on C99... part of their problem has been, how best to implement C99 features that were already part of GCC prior to C99, but with

GCC has been making progress on C99... part of their problem has been, how best to implement C99 features that were already part of GCC prior to C99, but with different syntax? For Microsoft, I read somewhere several years ago that they had no plans to support C99, because they viewed C as inconsequential compared to C++. I have not kept up with Microsoft C compiler development at all, so I don't know if this is still true or not.