Well, 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"

Well, 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.