title: Microsoft _s functions, are they part of the C++ standard now?
body: <p>I just recently changed my IDE to MS Visual Studio 2005 coming from MSVC++ 6, and I've gotten a lot of deprecation warnings.  Rather than ignore the warning, I started to change them to the _s equivalents.  However, I then found out that these were microsoft-only implementations.</p>
  
  <p>I read somewhere that they were pushing for these to become part of the standard. Is it?</p>
  
  <p>Is it a good idea to use these _s functions? Or should I use something else?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>