Might be useful to have some communication from ESRI as to why this hasn't been implemented yet. This particular idea was submitted 3.5 years ago and clearly has broad user demand, but yet it is listed as "Deferred". I get the feeling that for some of these things, we can up vote ideas till the cows come home, but...
Some official explanation might be useful (32 vs. 64 bit compatibility issues or something?), since the lack of communication on some of these topics, in my opinion, often makes ESRI look unresponsive and foments user frustrations. Maybe if an idea attains a certain point level, but is impractical to implement for some technical reason, there could be an official post from ESRI staff providing a high level explanation what the holdup is.
