Thread: On Microsoft's Increased Sponsorship of FIRST // Was: Microsoft Regional
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Re: Microsoft Regional
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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
The unique situation here is the coming together of four things.

1) Microsoft has announced a robotics programming system with far-reaching goals.
2) FIRST has announced a new FRC control system for the 2009 season (simultaneously giving no details and asking for user input using questions that make it seem that the decision has already been made).
3) FIRST is being alternately mysterious and dismissive about the role of VEX in its upcoming programs.
4) Microsoft is sponsoring a regional.

These things might not be related, but it's human nature to seek patterns in noisy data.
I believe that i heard somewhere that the 2009 controller will be an IFI product, just a very updated one.
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