Can you do anything to push Microsoft to implement recent C standards? Their failure to fully implement even C99 in Visual Studio is holding the language back.
However, as a user, you can help apply pressure on the vendor to support newer standards. For instance, with Microsoft, you could support this feedback request: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/idea/387315/add-...
Really, anyone writing C nowadays should ignore Microsoft's compiler, and tell Visual Studio users to install Clang.