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Kinect is pretty impressive, and I think WP7 is innovative in its ability to display content on a small screen in a natural way. I don't know if I agree that t

• danilocampos 16y ago
  Kinect is awesome, but as I said here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2420579 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2420579 They bought Kinect from another company – the hard work of getting approvals and resources and everything else to start on it had already been done outside of Microsoft. It's definitely an impressive bit of tech, but would it have been possible were its genesis subject to the byzantine internal politics of Microsoft? I dunno. I wouldn't put money on it. As to WP7, it's actually more of an indictment of Microsoft than it is a credit to them. Consider how much of a clusterfuck their mobile strategy has been for the last four years. It took them forever to get their bureaucratic shit together and actually ship something that resembled a next generation smartphone, and once they did, they did a piss-poor job supporting and improving the platform, despite the very high standard set by both Google and Apple for the same. It's a perfect example of their inability to execute or respond to changes in their industry.