Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?

Raymond Chen December 18, 2012 Dec 18, 2012 12/18/12

Windows XP was the last client version of Windows to include the Pinball game that had been part of Windows since Windows 95. There is apparently speculation that this was done for legal reasons. No, that's not why. One of the things I did in Windows XP was port several millions of lines of code from 32-bit to 64-bit Windows...