RAW Image Support in Vista Not So Seamless

Over on the Microsoft Photography Blog they talk about RAW image support in Vista. I thought that the support for RAW images would be baked into Vista and would be seamless for the end user. Apparently that's not the case as Vista will support RAW images but you have to download a codec from your camera manufacturer:

Windows Vista attempts to solve these problems by providing an extensible platform that allows support for these (and other) new file formats to be added to Windows by the owner of the file format. This support comes in the form of a codec, which users will get from their camera manufacturer, either by downloading it, or provided with a new camera body. The Photo Gallery will even detect the presence of these files and help you download a codec when it exists.

And if your camera manufacturer doesn't give you the codec? Then I guess you are back to installing a third party program just like Windows XP.

I know there is only so much that Microsoft can do since every camera manufacturer saves their RAW data in their own proprietary format but it would be nice if there was a standard. (It is being worked on and thats why you should go support OpenRAW.)