There is NO point in the zune firmware having an xvid (general fourCC codec compliant) costing MS anything except for paying the hours for their programmers to include it, seeing as Xvid is an opensource divx style mpeg4 codec that supports nearly all mpeg4 formats including divx, xvid, and MS Mpeg4... And with a simple GNU compliant license statement claiming that the zune uses this freeware codec as an added functionality and it was not developed by MS or meant to be sold by MS, they'd legally be able to use it... Since ALL Zune firmwares to date are running a variation of Windows CE V5.0 (as I recall) as the core OS behind the zune's interface, and CE has several methods for Xvid or Divx support in videos... I'd say its just a matter of whether or not MS themselves are willing to add such features in. My bet is that it will be a NO, after All, MS is interested in making money off of their zunes, and they earn most of the money via music and video sales, not unit sales.. so if they added a wider range of codec support (such as Xvid / divx) to the units, they decrease the selling power of videos for the zune, because Xvid and divx are the codecs of freedom.
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