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Seems OpenGL can’t be pushed out of business that easily: http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=338694
Obviously Vista does also support windowed OpenGL and just turns off the eye-candy for this particular window 
Long live OpenGL!
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