Something is obviously wrong here, since countless people including myself have zero problems playing back any sort of content on Vista that they could on XP or any other OS. I can't think of a single reason case where Vista would restrict content that can play on an unprotected platform, and I know my Vista has played every media file I've thrown at it fine, no matter where they came from, for over half a year since RC2.

Kunaak is obviously not an incompetent PC user, but I very much doubt that whatever is causing these issues is the "big bad buggy bloaty DRM monster". Everyone talks about how horrible this beast is, but I haven't seen him in my copy of Vista at all, not even a RAM footprint or a blurry photograph of an error message. Do my media files smell funny, does he not like bothering them? Or was Microsoft just kind enough to give me a special version of Vista without it?