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They won't be able to do any of this, or exploit any of the frankly enormous potential of the device, unless they can pry the Kinect out of the clutches of the

• pedalpete 16y ago
  The entertainment division operates WP7 and consumer software (as stated in the article), so what makes you think this division only cares about selling XBox? Microsoft (from my understanding) doesn't have exclusive rights to the Kinect tech, just for it's use in certain applications, but with the relationship that Microsoft has PrimeSense (the company which created much of the kinect technology), I'm sure groups outside of just the Entertainment division are looking at ways to leverage the tech and relationship. The brilliant hacking that is going on with kinect show just how valuable this tech can be in different uses. I'm sure microsoft will be leveraging much of this for ideas. Hopefully they'll be getting into the acquisition game and picking up some of these hackers to continue to create great experiences with kinect on platforms other than xbox.
  • regularfry 16y ago
    > The entertainment division operates WP7 and consumer software (as stated in the article), so what makes you think this division only cares about selling XBox? Chatting to a 'Softie who was complaining about this specific problem. Specifically that they're only interested in Kinect applications which will sell Xboxes, because that's how the ownership is organised. I didn't query too much further, it all sounded too painful...