Quote Originally Posted by oweb26 View Post
What do you mean completely powered off? Is there any other kind of off, or does it have a "standby" mode?

If all has been confirmed then I am not getting it myself its pretty simple, I was simply stating that maybe since some of this backlash has hit they pull back the reigns on some of the these initial things they thought were "cool"
There's a low power mode where the system isn't completely off, and in that mode, Kinect is still listening. The absolutely only time Kinect isn't listening is when it's completely powered off.