Posted on Wednesday, August 31 2011 @ 14:04 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Microsoft blogger Steven Sinofsky
reveals Windows 8's Explorer will have native support for ISO and VHD files.
The trend of incredibly large and small form-factor hard disks means we can store ever increasing amounts of data without worrying about running out of capacity. Windows 8 enables easy access to the contents of two important storage formats, ISO and VHD files. While we generally think of these formats when they appear on media, they are also very useful as files within a file system and that is where native support in Explorer comes in handy.
