Unless you are living under a rock or do not care about computer gaming you have heard about E3. With it come the announcements of by Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. Microsoft's new console is called Xbox360, and some information can be found here. I was glad to here that backwards compatibility is a goal for the new console, I feel pretty convident that this is going to work great. Michaele Brundage, a former colleague of mine is working on backwards compatibility as he writes here.