Mobile Stew

Major Nelson of Xbox Live fame, who is also a Microsoft employee, recently stated that the Xbox360 will never support DivX.  And the reason why?  Because DivX is primarily used to "backup" DVDs and Microsoft don't want to get involved in this contentious area.

If this is the official view from Microsoft it's complete tosh in my view.  Microsoft don't have a problem supporting DivX within XP Media Center Edition so why is it a problem within the Xbox360 Extender?

Also, MCE and Xbox360 both support MP3s.  MP3 is principally a "backup" format as well - if you purchase any music it's usually in WMA or AAC format.  So if they are happy to support MP3 then why can't they support DivX?

I really hope Microsoft change their views ...