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Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design
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.'"
How can they think anyone would believe this? Seriously, it used to be that when Microsoft spewed FUD, it was rock solid. They had their marketing act together and rolled over the competition.
Nowadays they can't even see past a couple weeks. Their products are still ok but with Ballmer at the helm they've been reduced to flinging poo in every direction, hoping that something sticks.
The MSFT shareholders better get their act together before it's too late.
How else would they get new ideas to steal?
Yeah, yeah, it was by design! And if you believe that, we've got a nice bridge^H^H^H^H^H^Hoperating system to sell you. :)
Naww, it's just Monkey Boy channeling Paul Reubens: <voice character="Pee Wee Herman">I meant do to that!<voice>
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Do you honestly believe that Microsoft, one of the most successful companies *ever,* would just forget to lock something?
It *was* by design. Microsoft isn't as incompetent as you think.