Herb Sutter, lead language architect of Visual C++ and chair of the ISO C++ committee, discusses recent progress and near-future directions for C++, both at Microsoft and across the industry, and talks about some announcements related to C++11 support in VC++ 2012 and the formation of the Standard C++ Foundation. Herb takes questions from a live virtual audience and demos the new http://isocpp.org site on an 82 inch Perceptive Pixel display attached to a Windows 8 machine.