Windows 8 has native mounting support for ISOs, VHDs

[TorturedChaos]

Its a nice addition but IDK it will sell it to me. Depending on how Win8 preforms I might just skip 7 on my main gaming machine and jump straight to 8 (Still running xp right now ).

 

[oldikes]

thats definately really nice!
And it will also help the pirates...haha
but who cares, this is awesome!

 

[Michael Schmidt]

Microsoft continues to play catch-up with Linux. We've had archive mounting for some time.

 

[Guest]

I think I'll stock with windows 7 four years ago , windows8 still not interest to upgrade to

 

[edwaruma]

i cnt wait for Win8 unfortunately i cant afford to download the beta version but im banking on the final version!

 

[captaincranky]

Quite frankly, mounting an ISO really isn't that big a deal. Many want to mount their game discs as ISOs, (myself included), so they don't have to crank the CD or DVD in and out of an optical drive constantly. I tend to think M$ isn't going to include any capability to go around DRM to mount these discs, possibly running afoul of the DMCA.

So, business as usual, you'd still have to get a clean ISO someplace else, before Windows would mount it for you.