Kinect is probably the best thing to come out of Microsoft in a while. If Kinect had come out in the late 90s or even early 2000 (go along for argument's sake)

Kinect is probably the best thing to come out of Microsoft in a while. If Kinect had come out in the late 90s or even early 2000 (go along for argument's sake) I doubt if Microsoft would have been this ready to embrace community hacking of kinect. More likely we would have seen the heavy handed actions that were synonymous of Microsoft that would have nipped these in the bud and we would have never seen the likes of cool hacks that Kinect is now famous for. I still wonder how Kinect came out of a Microsoft led by Ballmer.