MS are supporting the homebrew software scene for Windows Phone 7 and approve of the one that's grown around their Kinect motion control hardware for Xbox 360.
The potential for user-made Kinect software is immense, many people are experimenting with the hardware. For example, this is just fucking awesome.
Thumbs up for Microsoft's recent actions
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Re: Thumbs up for Microsoft's recent actions
This is good news and WP7 is genuinely good, for a version 1.0 product. Wait for the first OTA upgrade (i.e - service pack) though, due sometime over the next couple of months. It'll add copy/paste. Android is the future for techies though.
I am surprised though because the ability to alter Windows Mobile so much was one reason it struggled to succeed. People know every iPhone is identical, that wasn't the case with WM and isn't the case with Android. Allowing end-users to tinker, also allows OEMs to do the same and that isn't what Microsoft want from WP7. It's very much a departure from the computing Windows Mobile way of thinking (which Android largely follows but with a much better UI + App Store) and more a Microsoft iPhone.
I am surprised though because the ability to alter Windows Mobile so much was one reason it struggled to succeed. People know every iPhone is identical, that wasn't the case with WM and isn't the case with Android. Allowing end-users to tinker, also allows OEMs to do the same and that isn't what Microsoft want from WP7. It's very much a departure from the computing Windows Mobile way of thinking (which Android largely follows but with a much better UI + App Store) and more a Microsoft iPhone.