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I'm curious what amazing products Microsoft is working on.

• nitrogen 13y ago
  The new Kinect, were it not locked into the new Xbox and used for creepy advertising-related purposes, would be an amazing product.
  • mullingitover 13y ago
    After the NSA revelations, the absolute last thing I plan to do is install a high-resolution, always online camera from Microsoft (or any major US corporation for that matter) in my living room.
    • nitrogen 13y ago
      No doubt. I am, however, interested in using depth-sensing technology for less nefarious, non-cloud-based means (see my profile). I like the technology, but I strongly dislike what Microsoft might do and is doing with it.
  • anonymfus 13y ago
    There is already sign-up opened for new Kinect for Windows: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindowsdev/newdevkit.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindowsdev/newdevkit...
• jussij 13y ago
  From all accounts their Office 365 and Azure platforms are doing well. The say more than 50% of the Fortune 500 are now using Azure: http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-azure-now-used-by-over-50-percent-of-fortune-500-companies http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-azure-now-used-by-over-50... These are fairly radical changes as they are getting off the desktop platform amd moving straight into the cloud.
  • mattzito 13y ago
    I dunno, I work in the cloud space, largely with fortune 500 companies, and I don't know of any off the top of my head that are investing in Azure. That doesn't mean the article isn't technically accurate, of course, but I'd suspect that MSFT is being very generous with their definition of "using" and counting any pilot project in some engineering team as "using" - in which case I'm sure that most of the fortune 500 have someone somewhere playing with Azure. But that's not the same as using from the standpoint that we typically think about it.
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