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and it shows how hard it is for Microsoft to imagine losing even a bit of control on their products and what you do with them. Historically, Microsoft trying t
by statictype 15y ago
and it shows how hard it is for Microsoft to imagine losing even a bit of control on their products and what you do with them.
Historically, Microsoft trying to exert control over how exactly their product is used has not been a problem anyone has had.
If anything, one could argue that their product's quality (perceived and real) has been diminished by giving 3rd party developers too much freedom to run amok.
- regularfry 15y agoWell, historically speaking, I can't think of a product that has been quite so community-driven as the Kinect. I don't think anything has "escaped their grasp" in quite the same way. To give a counter-example, while it's been a while since I was involved in Windows development, I do remember an instance where a developer released a unit testing plugin that happened to be compatible with VS Express, and was forced to withdraw it at Microsoft's insistence. There was no quality issue there (not that I recall, anyway), it was purely a market segmentation and control ploy to ensure that anyone who wanted "serious" functionality had to buy VS Pro.