Josh Bancroft gave a heads up on Twitter last night, but I didn’t have time to dig deeper until now; sorry, nothing interferes with ‘24′ on Monday nights. Josh has an under-four minute video with Chuck DeSylva from Intel and Chuck explains why the Intel 915 graphics chipset isn’t capable of working with a WDDM driver, i.e.: why UMPCs and notebooks with this chipset can’t (and won’t ever) run the Aero Glass features of Vista.

I don’t think folks are as upset about the lack of Aero Glass as they are about losing functions like Windows DVD Maker and such. While I don’t use that function on a UMPC, I can certainly understand the frustration. Bear in mind the timing of the UMPC platform: conceptually, it was started while the coding and feature-set of Vista was still in flux. Additionally, the UMPC was always meant to be a companion device and while some of us push the envelope to make it a primary device, the intent was as a secondary device. Disappointing to be sure, but it’s nearly impossible to make a device all things to all people. Anyway, there’s plenty of good commentary and thoughts around the blogosphere after the jump.

• Steve gives a warning to new buyers
• Frank wants to use Windows Movie Maker on his UMPC under Vista, but can’t
• The Origami Project forum is a-buzzin’ on the topic.