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Originally Posted by HarryT
I suspect the reason is that which has already been stated: that DVD drives are increasingly rare on modern laptops (I don't have a DVD drive on any of my three current laptops), and hence paying a licence fee for the DVD codec on every copy of Windows is money that's largely wasted.
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And add the fact that an increasing number of blurays are being sold and those need a separate application already in Windows 8.1 anyway (the bluray code is not included in 8.1 either, I don't know about earlier windows). I think that the majority people that reguarly watch DVD's and Blurays already have a third-party tool.