This has nothing to do with Vista losing yet another feature. See, for all the noise Engadget is making about MS supposedly promising HD-DVD support out of the vista box - the statements referred to say nothing of the kind. They just say that they like HD-DVD better. Actually, Ballmer himself said that Vista probably would not support HD-DVD initially but would sometime after launch:
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helio9000 @ Aug 24th 2006 10:16AM
This has nothing to do with Vista losing yet another feature. See, for all the noise Engadget is making about MS supposedly promising HD-DVD support out of the vista box - the statements referred to say nothing of the kind. They just say that they like HD-DVD better. Actually, Ballmer himself said that Vista probably would not support HD-DVD initially but would sometime after launch:
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=15568