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OK I'm friends with the Microsoft Architect Evangelist here in Columbus, Ohio and I've been having discussions with him about this as well as how disappointed I was in copy & paste.. His response to me was there's a lot of internal discussions on it has to be there.. so we'll see. He did say well at least we can do OTA updates with it and not rely on carriers and OEMs to do it so it won't be hard to get it in if it doesn't make it during launch.

Also, the reasoning for removal of storage capabilities.. in his words.. same reason Zune is without it.. DRM. Once they put Zune functionality in it they had to remove it. I would've just segmented it myself and made it so only Zune items can be accessed on the internal memory while keeping the storage card as an option and separate if that was the case . Then again, people would complain about not being able to save media on their storage card.