Speaking at the Mix08 Internet conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft exec Steve Ballmer admitted that they have moved past the demise of Toshiba’s HD-DVD and plan on providing substantial support towards Blu-ray in the future.

We’ve already been working on, for example, in Windows, device driver support for Blu-ray drives and the like, and I think the world moves on. Toshiba has moved on. We’ve moved on, and we’ll support Blu-ray in ways that make sense.

Whether or not we will see Blu-ray on the Xbox 360 in the future is still unclear, but it is clear that Microsoft is in full support of the format.

Ballmer lets out his inner Monkey at Mix08 event [Seattle Pi]

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