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Microsoft's New Attempt To Dominate Robotics

Posted by timothy on from the more-robots-in-more-places dept.

An anonymous reader writes "IEEE Spectrum reports that Microsoft's Robotics Group is announcing new world domination plans — at least for the robotics world. The company is making its Robotics Developer Studio (RDS), which includes Microsoft's CCR and DSS runtime toolkit, available to anyone for free. Why make it a freebie? Because the company wants to expand its RDS base and get a grip on the robotics development space, hoping big things will come out of it."

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  1. Re:Wow... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fuck you and fuck Microsoft. You can both eat shit and die. That company has shat on and retarded the entire computing industry for too long. And you know what? It's finally coming to an end. Between Google, Canonical, Apple, html5 and the rest of the open internet, we don't even need MS anymore so they can take their lock-in and their fucking "robots" and shove it all up their asses. Bring on the iPads, GoogleTV, Android, ChromeOS, Ubuntu and all of the rest! Exciting times for computing.

  2. Re:Give stuff away = still evil? by Moddington · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is all I have to say on the matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish