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Microsoft confirms Kinect hackers to get official developer kit

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Re: Microsoft confirms Kinect hackers to get official developer kit

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Post by edge17 »

damoncali wrote: post #8
ascendant wrote: post #4

This act of coolness on the part of Microsoft makes my head hurt. I can't correlate "Microsoft" with "smart decision" anymore. I need an advil. On a serious note: this is a really good way to stick it to Sony too, since they're going after GeoHot and making themselves look like assholes doing it.

Nah - they'll just change the rules later and try to take 30%... Good move, Microsoft. Apple, are you seeing this? This is how you get people to use your stuff.

Apple's been doing this for a long time. Plenty of developers that got started in the jailbroken space have since gotten developer licenses and moved to the app store. The economic incentives are much better at larger scales.

Re: Microsoft confirms Kinect hackers to get official developer kit

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Post by endtime »

damoncali wrote: post #8
ascendant wrote: post #4

This act of coolness on the part of Microsoft makes my head hurt. I can't correlate "Microsoft" with "smart decision" anymore. I need an advil. On a serious note: this is a really good way to stick it to Sony too, since they're going after GeoHot and making themselves look like assholes doing it.

Nah - they'll just change the rules later and try to take 30%... Good move, Microsoft. Apple, are you seeing this? This is how you get people to use your stuff.

I dislike Apple as much as anyone, but I don't think they really need advice on getting people to use their products.

Re: Microsoft confirms Kinect hackers to get official developer kit

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Post by martin_k »

ascendant wrote: post #4

This act of coolness on the part of Microsoft makes my head hurt. I can't correlate "Microsoft" with "smart decision" anymore. I need an advil. On a serious note: this is a really good way to stick it to Sony too, since they're going after GeoHot and making themselves look like assholes doing it.

I don't actually find that too surprising. Microsoft did basically the same with the Surface SDK.

Re: Microsoft confirms Kinect hackers to get official developer kit

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Post by uygtfrgtyjuhk »

wslh wrote: post #9
oldstrangers wrote: post #2

I think this is a great step for Microsoft. I believe they've learned a lot from the good PR that Android has received due in part to Androids large and outspoken developer community. I'm sure Microsoft has also noticed a lot of the negativity surrounding Motorola and their decision to lock down boot loaders (effectively removing any developers chance to mess with the phone). That and the mess that Sony has created b…

It's ironic, but Microsoft almost always supported products that reverse engineered their software. One of our products was based on internals research and we received a proposal from their QA team to test our product in Windows 7. If I remember well, the Samba team had issues in the past with this practice, and also the activesync protocol is jealously protected (and licensed to Google).

The difference is that this can only increase sells of Kinect hw and MSFT sw.

Samba allowed you to replace expensive Windows Servers and expensive Client access license with free Linux boxes != Balmer being a happy bunny

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