FireWire 800 for PC: one will have to wait for Vista

About a year ago, Intel had announced that it will support FireWire 800 format in its future chipsets (announcement came couple of weeks before Intel transition was made official by SJ at the WWDC 2005), such as D955XBK (or also the one in the MB Pro 17").
Among Mac-dedicated websites, we were probably the only site explaining that FireWire 800 will still be supported in the first Macintel Pro hardware offers, waiting for the eSATA to become more popular, and for users to move to eSATA or SATAII solutions.
Microsoft had released drivers for WinXP allowing the support of FW800. It was not really stable, and during one of the numerous WinXP updates, FW800 was silently removed.
Things might change with Vista, since some Intel chipset are supporting natively FW800, Microsoft will bring FW800 drivers directly with Vista. It will not be directly available with Vista 1.0, but it will come with one of the forth coming updates...