Microsoft owns Xbox edition lol, it takes the fast pace away from Minecraft, the one game that still had it.
Actually MC Xbox edition is developed by 4J Studios. But the Minecraft brand is owned by Microsoft. But the original MC development teams still makes Minecraft.
EVERYONE STOP CRYING AND LISTEN! Do you realize how long we were in 1.7 on this server before we updated to 1.8? We might never update. I bet a bunch of servers will keep their updates to 1.8 just so we can jitterclick for pvp purposes. Let's be honest, ITS NOT OUT YET AND WE DONT KNOW IF THEY WILL REMOVE THOSE FEATURES
As far as the end user is concerned those features are final. All that is left is bug fixing leading up to a final release next year. Anyway servers will update and the ones that don't will die. It is as simple as that.
Where did you get that information from? Jeb has previously stated it will not be released until next year.