Windows 8 To Natively Support ISO and VHD Mounting

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @02:58AM from the new-tools dept.

MrSeb writes "With a masterful nail in the optical disc coffin, Microsoft has announced that its new operating system will natively mount ISO disc images. On the slightly more enterprisesque side of the equation, VHD files will also be supported by Windows 8. Both new features will be smoothly integrated into Windows 8 Explorer's ribbon menu, and mounting an ISO or VHD is as simple as double clicking the file. This is obviously an important addition with Windows 8 being available on tablets — and in a year or two, it wouldn't be surprising if all software is made available as an ISO on a USB drive which can be read by tablet and PC alike."

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Re:Sadly, I think Apple might win on this one by Beelzebud · 2011-08-30 03:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man.
Matryoshka Software by Phleg · 2011-08-30 03:23 · Score: 4, Funny

and in a year or two, it wouldn't be surprising if all software is made available as an ISO on a USB drive
Why stop there? I plan on shipping my software by printing the ones and zeroes, faxing it to myself, scanning it in as a JPEG, and pasting that into a Word Document. Only once that's done I'll tarball the Word doc, encode it on an ISO filesystem, and finally write it to a FAT32 USB stick.

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Re:Old news for the rest of us by ArsonSmith · 2011-08-30 03:29 · Score: 4, Funny

In Soviet Russia ISO images mount your.... never mind.

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