MS believes downloads are the future. It kinda backed HD DVD (though not to the same extent as Sony did Blu-ray) because HD DVD was designed to fit into and be a hub for a downloads ecosystem, but BD really doesn't and it's improbable MS gives a crap about it.
Indeed, I'd go further and say they'd really like it to fail. Trying to get Hollywood on board for HD DVD meant they had to go overboard in locking down certain aspects of Vista, and much of what makes Vista a mess is because of the attempts to implement "secure path" and all of its evils. With HD DVD no longer in the picture, Microsoft has two choices - they can carry on with secure path in an attempt to shore up a format they have no interest in, or they can quietly loosen the collar a little and make Windows 7 a little less restrictive.
I strongly suspect they'll do the latter, especially as Hollywood seems less concerned with "secure path" for online HD downloads - neither Hulu HD nor iTS seem to require it, for example.
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MS believes downloads are the future. It kinda backed HD DVD (though not to the same extent as Sony did Blu-ray) because HD DVD was designed to fit into and be a hub for a downloads ecosystem, but BD really doesn't and it's improbable MS gives a crap about it.
Indeed, I'd go further and say they'd really like it to fail. Trying to get Hollywood on board for HD DVD meant they had to go overboard in locking down certain aspects of Vista, and much of what makes Vista a mess is because of the attempts to implement "secure path" and all of its evils. With HD DVD no longer in the picture, Microsoft has two choices - they can carry on with secure path in an attempt to shore up a format they have no interest in, or they can quietly loosen the collar a little and make Windows 7 a little less restrictive.
I strongly suspect they'll do the latter, especially as Hollywood seems less concerned with "secure path" for online HD downloads - neither Hulu HD nor iTS seem to require it, for example.