God, and here I was thinking making boneheaded statements was purely Sony's domain these days. Microsoft's Peter Moore had this to say on the subject of backwards compatibility in a recent interview:

"Nobody is concerned anymore about backwards compatibility. We under promised and over delivered on that. It's a very complicated thing... very complex work. I'm just stunned that we have hundreds of games that are backwards compatible," he said.

"More [updates] are coming, but at some point, you just go, there's enough, let's move on, or people aren't as worried about a game being backwards compatible - and I like to think we've upheld our end of the bargain in making at least two or maybe three hundred games backwards compatible."

This comes as sharp constrast to the PR statement before the 360 launch that "our goal is to have every Xbox game work on Xbox 360." They've "upheld their end of the bargain" with a couple hundred titles, half of which involve Barbie or horses in some capacity? Where does he get these balls?

He tries to make it clear that updates are still coming, they're just less of a priority now. Given that the updates when they supposedly were important weren't exactly moving at lightning speed, I'd be surprised if the list gets new titles once a year. Apparently to Microsoft, as long as it's got Halo and Splinter Cell on there, none of the other games really matter.

While nothing has been said officially, it's been rumored that people working on backwards compatibility have been pulled to work on Windows Vista. It wouldn't surprise me.

Source: Game Daily