Windows in short: Xbox One without Kinect

Today another seven days end that bring us dangerously close to the equator of this year 2014. A year that continues to generate debates around the Internet and its regulationAs we continue to uncover details of the NSA's spying, another front against net neutrality has been opened in the form of a US FCC scheme. It is something to follow closely, as is the debate in Spain on the need or not to regulate social networks.

As for less tricky issues, we should highlight the agreement between Google and Apple that puts an end to the patent war between Microsoft's two main rivals.It is also worth reviewing the analysis of the selective focus on mobile cameras carried out by our colleagues from Xataka, where Nokia Refocus continues to stand out. For its part, in the Windows universe, the news, at the expense of the Surface event next Tuesday, is Microsoft's decision to put an Xbox One pack on sale without KinectThe news with which we begin our weekly review of the rest of the issues that remained in the pipeline revolve around it.

• Microsoft will update Xbox One to improve the options to control the console and navigate its menus without the need for Kinect.
• In addition, those in Redmond will compensate users of Xbox Live Gold for changes in the conditions of service and the possibility of using applications without that type of account.
• Within Xbox, your Games and Video apps for Windows Phone received updates this week.
• Microsoft's decision is not the end for Kinect, a device that will continue to have great potential as Oliver Kreylos demonstrated this week by combining Oculus Rift with three Kinects .
• Regarding the Redmond systems, there are more rumors that place the arrival of Windows 9 between the second and third quarters of 2015.
• In the mobile field, two new manufacturers have announced that they are preparing smartphones with Windows Phone 8.1: Blu and K-Touch.
• And we finished with the book that Microsoft secretly prepared to receive Nokia employees.

This is the end of seven days in which Xbox has been the protagonist and that leaves us wanting to know what Microsoft is preparing regarding its other great hardware product: SurfaceOn Tuesday we will clear up doubts and throughout the week we will continue shelling out the news from the Windows universe.