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Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design

Posted by timothy on from the always-at-war-with-eurasia dept.

kai_hiwatari writes "Around two week ago when Adafruit announced a bounty for developing an open-source driver for the Kinect, Microsoft made it clear that they didn't condone it. Now Microsoft seems to have realized the potential of their device and has made a U-turn. Alex Kipman, Xbox Director of Incubation, now says that they left the Kinect open by design. Kipman said, 'What has happened is someone wrote an open-source driver for PCs that essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn't protect, by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor.'"

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  1. Oh yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We totally meant to do that cool thing you guys thought we didn't mean to do ... and stuff.

    1. Re:Oh yeah by hduff · · Score: 2, Funny

      We totally meant to do that cool thing you guys thought we didn't mean to do ... and stuff.

      And "by design", they mean "accidentally".

      --
      "I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
  2. Needs more Xbox by slyborg · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think what he meant to say about the earlier statement was that Microsoft turned 360 degrees and walked away from it.

  3. And while we're at it... by broKenfoLd · · Score: 2, Funny

    "We also /wanted/ the Kin to fail after like 9 minutes on the market as a learning experience for our Win7 phone team"

  4. Re:open by design? My ass! by hedwards · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sorry sir, but this isn't the appropriate venue to offer those sorts of services. I'd refer you to Craig's list, but apparently they aren't that sort of venue either.