Quote Originally Posted by ahmd View Post
@Igor Vartanov: Yes, Backward compatibility and New features is what I'd like to know. Also what's your overall take on it (MS VS 2012) in regards to C/C++?
Well, I've rebuilt a couple of my MFC/ATL projects in VS2012, and everything went just fine. Another thing is that the projects are pretty much trivial in aspect of MFC use, though at least some level of backward compatibility is confirmed.

As for new features, unfortunately I cannot say anything certain. As I said before, I constantly drift off the Windows waters during last couple of years, so I'm about to start fearing of losing my C++ background.

Funny thing, this summer I've been interviewed in some local company, rather big one, and they said they actively hire C++ specialists... to retrain them to mobile developers, Android Java and iOS Objective C. Seems nobody needs pure C++ devs anymore.