The other story is to what extent is a private company obligated to implement a feature pushed by its competitors? This is often done in the name of it being a

The other story is to what extent is a private company obligated to implement a feature pushed by its competitors? This is often done in the name of it being a "standard", but C# is standardized too. Furthermore, these standards often haven't been well vetted. As I noted before C++ ran into this problem with export. It caused no end of headaches and wasted time. It was eventually effectively dropped (although EDG did appear to get a decent implementation in-place finally). At the end of the day each vendor should feel they have the freedom to implement what they deem as important. Other vendors should respect it. Whether its Apple not supporting Flash (not a standard, but hugely popular) or MS not supporting WebGl (a draft, but not widely used).