Can Kinect make Windows cool again?
"This is a turnaround chance for Microsoft… A chance for them to say this isn't about video gaming, it isn't about Windows, it's about the future of everything."

James McQuivey, Forrester Research, in Bloomberg Businessweek
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You will soon be using a Kinect, even if you don’t have an Xbox
"It's not hard to see why the Kinect, which provides cheap 3D sensors that just two years ago would have cost thousands of dollars, is such an appealing platform for Microsoft’s innovators. The company is smart to make it so accessible to outside developers, and so cheap. For that reason, you can expect to see (and be using) a Kinect in the next year, regardless of whether you own one."

Dylan Tweeney in Venture Beat
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Kinect for Windows 1.5 bringing better skeletal tracking
"Microsoft is serious about gesture-based interface control. Just a few months after releasing the first Kinect for Windows, the company is preparing an update that will extend the capabilities of the operating system/motion control interface marriage."

Lance Ulanoff in Mashable
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"How do we take those tools and put them in the hands of developers so they start imagining new ways that we interact with computers, so that we start doing things in our daily lives using natural user interface."

Marc Whitten, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, on CNBC’s "Street Signs"
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Microsoft takes the Kinect beyond Xbox
"To target a non-gamer audience, Microsoft recently released Kinect for Windows… The company is betting that opening up the platform will lead to greater creativity."

Mason Cohn for CNN
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Microsoft picks 11 startups for new Kinect Accelerator
"Those 11 companies have been invited to Seattle this month to participate in the first-ever Kinect Accelerator, a joint venture of Microsoft and the startup incubator TechStars. The 11 teams will receive $20,000 in startup cash as well as access to Microsoft technologies and executives as they attempt to build out their new ideas on the back of Kinect."

John Cook in GeekWire
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