The cloud has been coming for a long time — it’s coming, really coming, like a freight train — but there are some impediments to its broad adoption. It’s something that will enable a broad set of companies to buy something off the shelf from Riverbed, and make easier the confusing cloud world almost immediately. We’re in the position of having the dominant technology needed to enable cloud computing, and it’s a great position.
To that end, today Microsoft announced that the Kinect for Windows commercial program will launch early next year, giving global businesses the tools they need to develop applications on Kinect that could take their businesses and industries in new directions.
Keen on encouraging the fast-growing wealth of non-gaming applications that have sprung up for Kinect, Microsoft released an academic and enthusiast software development kit for non-commercial projects in June and will release a similar kit next year for commercial uses.
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