If your employer is developing PLUGINS for a specific certain other product, then it has to stick to the COMPILER the product was released for (CRT/C++ runtime

If your employer is developing PLUGINS for a specific certain other product, then it has to stick to the COMPILER the product was released for (CRT/C++ runtime compatibility). So here is one reason. Another one - is money - why spend every (or two) years money on product that is not bringing that much to the table (for a lot of projects at least I've been)