Windows 7 might get native VHD support?

Long is again at his super sleuthing of the nether regions of the Microsoft's web site. This time he has turned up a new job offer looking to add native support for Virtual Hard Drives to Windows 7.  Here is the text of the job posting.

Do you want to join the team that is bringing virtualization into the mainstream? In Windows 7, our team will be responsible for creating, mounting, performing I/O on, and dismounting VHDs (virtual hard disks) natively. Imagine being able to mount a VHD on any Windows machine, do some offline servicing and then boot from that same VHD. Or perhaps, taking an existing VHD you currently use within Virtual Server and boost performance by booting natively from it.

Do you want to have the opportunity to work on a great Core OS team at the heart of Windows? If you have big ideas and want to implement them, if you love writing code, if you love delving into operating system internals, if you want to work on high visibility projects with direct consumer and customer impact and still work in a very technical environment, then you will feel right at home in this team.

Virtualization technology has been a great success with Virtual Server and Hyper-V. With native OS support on the horizon it will become an even greater hit. Our team is making this a reality in Windows 7. Consider the simplicity of backup using a VHD, or the portability of a virtual disk backed by a single file. These are a few reasons why this technology is poised to be one of the greatest features in Windows 7–come help us achieve this goal.

This is a pretty great find, which I think it has far bigger implication that just the native support for VHD's, which is cool.  Further in the job posting it goes on to imply how this technology could possibly be used as part of a backup solution leveraging the VHD format. Also very cool...and I am sure we could think of a few other creative uses of VHD's

Now, Just because they are posting a job about this doesn't mean that it will make it in Windows 7 because features can, do, and probably will get cut between now and ship... we can just hope this isn't one of them.

I wonder though since Microsoft officially continues to be tight lipped about Windows 7, with its new under promise and over deliver strategy, if they will start scrubbing job posting of proposed features now?